Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

To help our colleagues build the skills they would need to handle fast-moving technology, we spent a lot of time talking with thought leaders. Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association, will share how APA used these techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other. But, you can also have some fun with virtual icebreakers that build trust and engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Here are five tips to build more engaged remote teams. This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. Align on team norms Building awareness of individual styles and preferences sets the stage for team alignment on shared norms and behaviors.

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Team Build Tips Exercise 102

Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

Every member of your nonprofit team already knows how to build strong relationships with friends, co-workers, family members, significant others, and more. Magic happens when you build those kinds of relationships with your prospects and donors. Building your donor stewardship plan. Building your donor stewardship plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Which one you select depends on the activity and group dynamics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Data should inform and optimise your fundraising strategy , and attribution is a simple technique you can use to really help you get it right. Knowing where your donors come from is the first piece to building an excellent donor experience, and growing your charity. You’d want to know that right? Tell me all about attribution.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 2, 2022

Using the right tools and techniques makes it easy to get more out of your association’s online community. . You just need the right tools and techniques in place to take it to the next level. . Create a newcomer group where new members can ask questions and discuss topics so that they feel at home in your association right away.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 6, 2024

Perhaps your organization is one of those tradition-bound groups with a history that has been a decades-long cast iron model for culture, governance, and operations. Providing tools that inspire teams to expand their horizons builds the culture of learning organizations need to succeed in the future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

It will also help them build better relationships with major donors and their broader donor base. Gain insights into donor behavior, understand stakeholder preferences, and more, while freeing up time for relationship-building. These features let groups focus on their resources. They help build trust with your donors.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

12NTC wasn’t void of sessions and discussion on the topic, but they made sure fundamental things like email were covered because of a rather large group of people (Eh? Now day’s every conference you go to has a HUGE social media focus. For better or worse. who still need to run effective email marketing and communications programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Here are some techniques to promote it on social media. Even Giving Tuesday, a day dedicated to supporting causes we love, can be a challenge for small and local groups who are outsized by national and global causes. Build up excitement about new products. If Shopify isn’t your cup of tea, there are many alternatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. As a group we spend time clustering similar ideas before reviewing them. Build consensus. It does require a learning curve to master in addition to the technique.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Within 30 minutes, I registered a domain name, launched a fundraising site on CauseVox , and seeded it with key influencers on Twitter to help build momentum. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Partnerships – We partnered with as many groups and sponsors as we could.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Icebreakers: Stoke Deck : A collection of warm-up activities designed to boost energy, build connection, foster empathy, support collaboration, and cultivate creativity. Icebreakers for Teams Collection Select from over 300 icebreakers based on how well the group knows each other. Interactive Meeting Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At this point, any group missing the digital gene is probably extinct. The software typically wins as a result of the resources that are required to build a custom platform. Building blocks based on point-and-click or drag-and-drop techniques, allow anyone to become a developer. Today, we are looking at evolution.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We have the answers and the resources to help you join the AI revolution and prepare to build your first low-code app. For example, AI can accelerate low-code development by helping you build a workflow or an app just by using natural language, or it can generate content from data using large language models like GPT-4.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. Additionally, if the attendee list is less than 30, I will ask for a bio or information on members of the group, so I can really see where people are coming from or if there is something in their background I can reach out and talk about. Go deeper — use empathy.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

You can expect to: Make lasting connections Discover emerging trends and evergreen insights Learn tips and techniques from trailblazers Be entertained, enlightened, energized, and ready for innovative professional adventures Here’s the trailer for two days of knowledge-sharing and discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Not only to prove the effectiveness or the role of content marketing, but to look at traditional marketing techniques, and their antiquatedness. Here are 5 stats that prove content marketing works, and 5 stats that prove traditional marketing techniques are a thing of the past. The 5 reasons why content marketing works.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Sure, we know she wanted to see large gifts flowing into her organization, but she also recognized that large gifts would only come from a small group of people. The techniques for recruiting and retaining low-dollar funders are quite different from those at the major or leadership levels. About Bristol Strategy Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

During this time of disruption and fear, it is more important than ever to build in time for a round of check-ins to let people share how they are doing. I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. ” . Here’s a few ideas. Pandemic Check-Ins & Icebreakers. That comes next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. It’s a huge group: two billion worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Building a successful online community starts with a solid plan. . Building a thriving online community starts with a well-considered strategy. They should be able to: Suggest discussion group topics and content?. Determine which groups you’ll launch with your community. Moderate and participate in online discussions?.

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Community Online Strategy Guidelines 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Hybrid meetings are where some participants participate remotely through a video conferencing platform like zoom, while the rest of the participants are gathered together in a conference room in an office or several in-person group clusters. Beware of Power Imbalances and Group Dynamics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Can this technique work for an online meeting? Each person shares their drawing and you guess who it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques.

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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. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. As Robin points it, this is a terrific checklist for the curator’s work flow. Ross Dawson’s Five ways of Adding Value.

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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. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization. It is so easy to just do the same old thing all the time, but there is some discomfort in creating something new. I want to explore the methods and techniques for optimizing creativity and applying it your work.

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Tunisia Instructional Design Technique Literacy 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other. and ease people into a group meeting or learning situation. Additional Tools and Techniques.

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