Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

This helps builds anticipation and excitement for the event. What I enjoyed about this Twitter chat was the opportunity to ask pointed follow up questions and to draw out specific people. I always learn a lot when I’m get a chance to ask other people questions and this experience did not fail in delivering that.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As soon as people become interested in an issue, their creativity is instantly engaged. We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. If you’re meeting virtually, build a collection of images you like to use. Well, almost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2021

Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt have discovered over the past 30 years that: People lose their ability to influence others and impact the organizations they work at because they are not focused on the most essential, mission-critical business and cultural priorities of the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The peer learning exchange offers one-on-one coaching for 16 state organizations that work on children’s health care insurance, monthly peer webinars, and a face-to-face workshop. This technical assistance design is a balance of expert support with peer learning and an intentional strategy for building the network’s capacity.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Text marketing , also known as SMS marketing, can help your organization engage supporters, build relationships, and ultimately boost your fundraising results. The more people you get to opt in, the more supporters you can cultivate relationships with over text. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. Are we building social capital or just accumulating feel-good anecdotes? I have seen a lot of inclusion practices and policies in museums and cultural institutions, but I haven''t seen many evaluations of their success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He adds that 2020 was the moment of truth for character, and building an upstanding company character is what will drive long-lasting success. It is the basis of trust and emotional connection people have with your organization—measured by the distance between what you say and what you do. It is earned as much as it is defined.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Most donors only make major gifts to a nonprofit after multiple interactions with that organization—very few people will make a $5,000 gift right away! After all, this is a group of people who already support your work. You’re looking for people who want to give substantial donations and have the finances to support that desire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection. Crediting & Attributing: Giving credit to the original source.

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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

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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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Building Sales Ops. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Starting to fundraise without a plan is like building a house without a draft – you need a plan to know where you’re going, and to keep you on that track. It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. Understand Your Need & Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Fluency in social media skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Crisis communication strategy.

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

A big topic of discussion as the field is maturing is how to track on-the-ground outcomes for people and communities, in addition to counting clicks, views, downloads and tweets. Code for America , one of the organizations that we worked with, is already implementing outcome assessments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Here are five tips to build more engaged remote teams. People can also create user guides on their personal working styles. This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. Meeting people where they are is another act of inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. To meet people where they already are, we created a Facebook group and wiki site to share information. What impact did all this have on communities? million , once the dust settled).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. What does that mean for nonprofits and the people who work for them? Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation. Why is Content Curation Valuable?

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. I wondered whether the more general learnings about network effectiveness and evaluating networks would be considered confidential?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

Everywhere you look these days, people are talking about leadership. Nonprofit, business, people, team, board, community, tech, emergent, servant, etc. It’s the deliberate practice of designing, building, and evolving the positive perception and experience of everyone inside and outside of your ecosystem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.”

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