Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Personal interactions. At an in-person event, attendees can easily interact with one another and socialize during these breaks, keeping them engaged. Not only will attendees be able to interact with one another, but they’ll also be able to connect with members of your nonprofit’s staff and witness the impact of your story firsthand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We chose the latter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Design: Does the aesthetic appeal enhance the user’s interaction? Imagine a student switching from a laptop to a tablet and still experiencing the same clarity and ease of interaction. Source Understanding the basics of UX involves recognizing its key components: Usability: How user-friendly and intuitive is the interface?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Design: Does the aesthetic appeal enhance the user’s interaction? Imagine a student switching from a laptop to a tablet and still experiencing the same clarity and ease of interaction. Source Understanding the basics of UX involves recognizing its key components: Usability: How user-friendly and intuitive is the interface?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Design: Does the aesthetic appeal enhance the user’s interaction? Imagine a student switching from a laptop to a tablet and still experiencing the same clarity and ease of interaction. Source Understanding the basics of UX involves recognizing its key components: Usability: How user-friendly and intuitive is the interface?

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Your Ideal MarTech Stack Using the diagram you made of your current MarTech stack, create a version of it that is updated to reflect your nonprofit’s ideal state. Your information should flow between platforms in a way that creates efficiency and a source of truth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

You want to strike a balance between highlighting success and showing where you need to go next, while not overwhelming your audience in the process. Find inspiration for external audiences While internal audiences are the target for KPIs and data analysis discussed, what can you take from this process into an annual or impact report?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

The user journey encompasses every step visitors take when they interact with your healthcare website, from when they first arrive on the site to when they click away. Follow these steps to map user journeys: Create audience personas. Dive into your constituent data to understand your audience’s demographics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. It takes several iterations of your survey to develop one that works, but you really gain a good understanding of the level of your audience.

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OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Knowing your theme and audience. For example, check out these 10 useful interactive tools for hybrid events to see what it takes to host an event that is both in-person and virtual. . Know Your Theme And Your Audience. If you’re selling antiques, your decor should reflect that and be in the classical style.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should clearly reflect the purpose of honoring and highlighting AAPI cultures. The theme should resonate with both the AAPI community and also general audiences. Incorporate interactive elements that allow attendees to directly participate. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Rob Cottingham. Photo by Devon Smith. Click to see full size image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. Now to recap some thoughts about what we presented and insights generated upon reflection. And, also to Marcele Iniarra for his creativity. Fundraiser DNA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Some Reflections. Clarifying exactly what we want to accomplish with social media and the audience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

From tracking conversations and donations to event registrations, you can note every interaction you have with a supporter in your nonprofit CRM. Ensure any CRM you invest in offers features such as: Donor profiles Nonprofit CRMs automatically create donor profiles for supporters who contribute or interact with your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Note from Beth: Last week I was in New Orleans for the National Assembly of State Arts Councils meeting. I facilitated a peer session with Public Information Officers and a Mini-Workshop on managing and measuring a social media presence. We covered strategy, especially identifying audiences through personas and key objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? One of the reflections.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

While in-person sessions can promote cross-cultural talks and experience sharing, online modules can be customized with different examples and scenarios that reflect cultural nuances and preferences. Keep all training materials in one location, such as a learning management system (LMS), to facilitate easy access and version control.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

While in-person sessions can promote cross-cultural talks and experience sharing, online modules can be customized with different examples and scenarios that reflect cultural nuances and preferences. Keep all training materials in one location, such as a learning management system (LMS), to facilitate easy access and version control.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

While in-person sessions can promote cross-cultural talks and experience sharing, online modules can be customized with different examples and scenarios that reflect cultural nuances and preferences. Keep all training materials in one location, such as a learning management system (LMS), to facilitate easy access and version control.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Targeting the wrong audience. Once you have a goal to guide your team, you’ll then need to find out who your target audience is and how best to reach them. Targeting the wrong audience. However, most nonprofits have a tendency to target more audiences than necessary. Operating without a clear marketing strategy.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

Since your consumers are, often for the first time, interacting with your brand through a virtual event or a hybrid event, it can be difficult to gauge how well your brand is being perceived and the ways your attendees are enjoying the experience. . They also allow for hybrid interactions. Attendee Tracking To Build Customer Avatars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. .” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. Digital fundraising is about using all the channels at your disposal in an integrated way to reach and expand your audience, spark engagement, and grow your giving opportunities.Be It’s important to determine the real amount of revenue needed.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

If you find that your marketing efforts were misaligned with your audience, conduct more audience research to help understand your supporters better. Give your audience information that will help them identify with the individual featured in your story. This helps put a face to your appeal and generate empathy for your cause.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. Here’s some reflections: 1.) Small Group Composition: How you select people to put into small groups may or may not be important to a small group exercise. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. My reflections are here. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. Interact with the Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Don’t Just Research Your Audience, Make Them Part of the Presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

The art of writing good teaser headlines is critical to getting more interaction. If the audience is local, it is important to framing content and issues for local geographic area. Human interest stories and good news from the organizations generated more interaction than others. Measure Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. netnon I want one thing for this audience. How do we turn data into Insights?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. Interactive. If I was in a room, live, I would have facilitated a brief conversation about the themes and interjected the themes into conversation - and then summarized them succintly with the slides. Collaborating.

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