Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

” As the above word cloud indicates, sometimes stress is triggered by other people at work, leadership, board, or co-workers. People learn new facts but their intelligence, or their ability to learn, remains largely the same. What is your favorite journaling technique? 2: Track Your Moods. Do you keep a journal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

People learn new facts but their intelligence, or their ability to learn, remains largely the same. People can actually increase their emotional intelligence by working on the skills that we are covering in the emerging leaders training. With regular intelligence, you are generally as “smart” now as you ever are going to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When you are building ties between nodes in a network or connections between peers, you need to build in networking time. We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

One of the topics the peer learning group took a deep dive into was selecting the right chart and techniques offered by nonprofit data nerds Stephanie Evergreen (who write a guest post on how to create great graphs ) and Anne Emery’s tips on how to avoid boring bar charts.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

They drew their dots, building consensus around the blue dot shown. And it had to do as well--or better--than the office building financially. You can see them in this chart. But they were not the ones people talked about the most in the months leading up to this exercise. The project had to increase mission impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people. A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Participation builds loyalty and community. There are a few key ways a nonprofit’s mission or program can become the “hero” of their fundraising campaigns: Tell emotional stories about the mission’s impact on real people’s lives. Helping real people should be the star. Apply those lessons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

They capture their discussion by taking notes on the “tablecloths,” (in this case, it is flip chart paper). Also, staff exposed indirectly to trauma through hearing about the difficult experiences of the people they serve or “secondary trauma” can lead to burnout or “compassion fatigue.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

He describes a simple technique of taking 5 minutes every morning to write down 3 important tasks to accomplish and then reminding yourself every hour as to whether you have completed those tasks using your iPhone alarm. The Pomodoro method and app is one way to avoid the productivity loss of procrastination. Read more here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh , a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. Most people write “to do lists” that are never ending. Image by Ayyamsyria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Red House@Your House offered an opportunity for young people to get involved.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We believe that partnerships build a stronger museum and a stronger community. We were seven people in a room, laser-focused on making the MAH a community gathering place and cultural center. The tools and techniques that worked for us when we were seven people in a room don't work for twenty. Here are my top five: SLACK.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

A good CRM will help you track your donors’ giving history, document their engagement with your organization, and help you identify opportunities to build strong donor relationships that will last for years. They’ll also help you build profiles on your donors that include their contact information and communicatino preferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. 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? Learning Begins with Igniting Curiosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I stumbled across the Pomodoro technique which is very similar to time boxing (assigning discrete blocks of time to a particular task and using a timer), but the method also gives you some ways to prioritize work. Or maybe it is negative thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. I think people are more likely to pay attention if they know that they might in the presentation. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Note from Beth: At the end of the day, organizations that are committed to learning will be more effective at meeting the needs of the people they serve. Alison Carlman, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, has written this guest post about how to use some tools and techniques for using feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation. Your People Are Talking. is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

You might need to apply for a business loan at some point, especially if you want to buy a building or set up a thrift store. Go into some detail to describe the number of people or animals who need you, the number you serve or intend to serve, and the remaining gap who need service. You can’t just tell people your idea is working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

As chair of the chart committee, I had originally diagrammed this concept as the rungs of the ladder of engagement - see it here. And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. . How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s in our org charts. There are 7 billion people on Earth and 5 billion of them have a mobile phone. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways. I know this because these same people have been talking about the death of all these things for the past 20 years. Can you read a chart?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

A connection between people is called link. For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. David Armano likes to talk about how Twitter can strengthen loose ties (two people who are connected on social networks, but don't know each other in real life or very well).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Typically, I have two groups of participants and as the chart above indicates, this group is no different - except that I probably have a greater number of people in Group 2. (1) Sometimes, people in this group are overwhelmed by the technology. " This reminded of the Thiagi's Interactive Lecture techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily. I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice. This way people could attend two.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

And, then they asked me to design something … I agreed as long as we all went into it with the mantra – it’s an experiment, not every social media experiment (and capacity building program for that matter) is a success for all participants – some might bomb. They agreed. Self-Select Delivery Style. Conclusion.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Utilizing infographics, charts, and other visual tools can help break down your nonprofit’s achievements and impact into digestible bits. Additionally, testimonials can help build trust and credibility with your audience, as they provide real-world examples of the positive impact your organization is making.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2011

I’ll start off with the basics, but then we’ll get into some advanced techniques. If you’re not yet familiar with Google Analytics, it’s a free tool from Google that you can add to your site to give you information about how people are coming to your website and how they behave when they get there.

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Forum One

MAY 30, 2024

This is the second in a four-part blog series, Building Trust and Credibility Through Design, based on a webinar led by Forum One’s Vice President of Design. Trust is the bedrock of any mission-driven organization, and effective communication is key to building and maintaining that trust. Watch the webinar.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. They are usually staffed by people who feel incredibly passionate about their particular focus. They are places that people point to with pride and say, "that's our place." People like to buy from chains because they know what they are going to get.

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