Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Finally, allocating time for a reflection about what worked, what didn’t based on an analysis of the data is critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The chart above comes from a recent study on the link between well being and workplace productivity and the impact of office design. Another method is finding a “ Shultz Hour ” where you carve an hour before or after work for silent reflection, or maybe a Shultz ten minutes by closing your office door.

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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. And then reflecting at the end of the day for 5 minutes about what you accomplished.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections. Thinking through a strategy requires more reflection and discussion within the organization and some level of experience with the tools. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Setting up a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. I feel really inspired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart.

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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. Storytelling techniques Craft these stories with care, using narrative techniques that engage the emotions of your readers.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I've charted those – so I know when they occur). Have any techniques to add to this list?

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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. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. Someone said, "Extension work is research based, how do you incorporate this technique?" Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Reflection and Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice. So they used the technique of “OH&# or overheard. Posters: Wall of Reflection and Gratitude. This helped encourage reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. 4) There isn't a place inside of the virtual world where you can easily post the agenda and I haven't found a virtual flip chart yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

and “Who are the ACLU-NJ’s stakeholders?” These questions were submitted to the brainstorming team the day beforehand so each person had time to reflect. One technique is after identifying goals, list all your audiences/stakeholders and ask – how likely will they influence the success or failure of getting results?

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. We got started with a welcome from Liane Wong who gave an overview of the program and how it fits into the grantmaking strategy that uses a networked approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". Click to see larger diagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. At the end of the day, I had participants quietly fill out a reflection form: One thing I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

The first step is awareness and that happens through tracking and observing yourself in work situations. Aside from practicing many of the practical tips we offer, part of the homework encourages emerging nonprofit leaders in the project to do some reflection time and maintain a journal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. 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) Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Jo Johnson over at the London Symphony is a master of this technique. Set aside an hour a week for learning from your data and reflecting on how to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Your website needs to reflect your nonprofit in an intuitive way, and it should be easily updated to support future campaigns and fundraising efforts. . Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Document on the fly.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. Keep in mind that your card labels don’t necessarily need to reflect your website’s navigation labels. Deliverables. What’s Next.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Typically a fundraising strategy includes specific goals, tools, techniques, and processes that help you plan campaigns, promote them, secure donations, and build strong relationships with supporters. However, the scope and specifics of your fundraising strategy will vary based on your organization’s size, needs, and experience level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time. As soon as you tick off completed tasks, you add new ones. Tracking what you have done allows you to track what you have accomplished and reflect on it, not bury myself in busyness. Here’s a guide to this useful productivity habit.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. We candidly share frontline experiences, reflect deeply on our impact and find the network and meaning we need to do transformational work. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Mexico / SOLD OUT. General / @OppColl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

But, cartoons can be terrific infographics or used as technique for sense-making. Cartoons are good communication tool. Online charting and data visualization tools like Easel.ly are can let you pull together charts and info graphics quickly and easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

This “Window of Opportunity” was a perfect chance to practice the dance between the strategic and spontaneous or becoming an adaptive organization. In addition, Sinatra mentions that figuring out their ‘no matter what’ messages was important to mapped out in advance. 5) Prepare and Rally Your Base.

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