Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A healthy board should be diverse (people, experience, background, thought), but it should also be unified so it can work collectively to effectively fulfill its obligations and propel the organization’s mission. And if a board member isn’t good at asking people for money, then you risk getting no money, less money, or upsetting donors.

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Develop Create Tips Exercise 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 98

The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

Keep in mind good storytelling techniques. Get People Talking on: Twitter. Twitter is an opportunity for continuous and open conversation with your supporters. Twitter is an opportunity for continuous and open conversation with your supporters. Share your knowledge with our community in the comments!

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

Remember people do things for their own reasons. To solve the donor’s problems and achieve their goals, you use your knowledge of the donor’s emotional needs and their requirements, combined with the information you have about your nonprofit and the solutions available. The questioning techniques should include: Open Questions? —?they

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Facilitation Donor Gift eBook 112

Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

They have been produced by people putting energy into telling their stories. These are places to which people and society entrust their most treasured items. In the digital world, analytics tell you how many people are visiting, where your audience is looking, and where to expand or improve. What does your collection represent?

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Library Museum Content Digital 75

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

To do this, they use a variety of techniques, including public relations management, content marketing and technical SEO. . Therefore, SEO reputation should be at the center of a nonprofit’s SEO strategy to help maintain its supporters and their conversion rates. . Nonprofit organizations and SEO Reputation. Author Bio.

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Management Nonprofit Wikipedia Review 84

Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

SXSW EDU is more focused to educators, government and people working in the ed space. . With fundraising and technology at the forefront of the conversation, we’ll explore best practices and learn how to leverage the latest technology to raise more. Audience size : 15,000 (SXSW EDU); 37,000 (SXSW). And, everyone else.

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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.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning that builds your expertise while enhancing your organization’s brand and content strategy. Content curation can empower us to learn more and use that knowledge to get deeper impact for our nonprofit’s programs.

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Content San Francisco Technique Skills 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. We allowed people to move from group to group once they go their questions answered.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Clearly Identify Duties and Responsibilities Begin this process of identifying a role’s purpose by: Having a conversation with the manager who oversees the position. The Difference Between Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience Skills are the abilities, techniques, and knowledge a person has acquired over time.

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Job Roles Skills Nonprofit 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I always incorporate an icebreaker, a short exercise that lets people introduce themselves and tap into existing knowledge. Even at the most standard of board meetings, a little connection at the beginning can go a long way, and going outside the comfort zone can lead to some good laughs and even better conversation.

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Fun Train Training Facilitation 131

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Fluency in social media skills.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 94

Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

These nonprofits have gotten really good at making it easy for people to understand how their donation will make a difference. They’re also good at making it easy for people to give and satisfying to stay involved. For some people, a $240 donation is out of reach, but $20 per month is doable. They’ll share your content.

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Donor Nonprofit Gift Missouri 128

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

97% of people who visit your website for the first time leave without making a purchase. It is simpler and easier to persuade people to buy from you if they already intend to buy that product or service. Both these methods help you target and market to people who have already entered your buying cycle. They have the same goals.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. At this time on a Sunday, most donors will be finished with their weekend errands and are likely available for a conversation.

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Guide Script Tips Gift 98

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Slicing up data and fitting it neatly into clever categories can really make people feel like they’ve done something great (and maybe they have!). Understanding how that data can affect donor conversion in the future can be very elusive. Understanding Data. What Methodology Best Serves Nonprofits? It makes sense.

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Communication Library Demographics Nonprofit 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Social media tools can help you easily connect with people who have the knowledge, resources, and ideas to share. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. Where can network weaving techniques help you unleash the abundance that networks offer.

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Integration Network Work Linkedin 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last night I had the pleasure of joining a conversation with WOW2 over at edtech. It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture. I've been a fan of Vicki Davis's blog ( CoolCat Teacher Blog ) for sometime now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. And, of course, it helps to have free stuff to give away to motivate people to share their stories. Monitors, listens, and researches the people in their network.

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Social Media Effective Media Social 101

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? Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The product of this learning journey, Just In Time: Beyond-the-Hype Potential of E-Learning , has just been published. Based on a year of conversations with more than 100 leading thinkers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, this report explores the state of e-learning and the potential it offers beyond the confines of formal education.

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Learning Remix Teach Hype 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I like to have fun experimenting and that’s just what I’m doing on my Facebook Page , a place for learning, and sharing insights about best practices in social media for networked nonprofits. I learn so much from the conversation threads and people sharing what they do. Techniques for More Engagement.

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Social Media Fun Experiment Media 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. You have people line up in the room based on whether they agree or disagree with a statement. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef. Living Case Study.

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Case Study Social Media Studies Integration 99

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. We even localized and mixed up our energizers and icebreakers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for peer knowledge sharing, but we hope to distinguish it from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls. While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 102

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. . To achieve that, sales operations people help streamline process to speed up the sales cycle and enable sellers to close more deals. Conversion Rates.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 140

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

.&# Eugene Eric Kim noticed a tweet from Stephanie McAuliffe — that allowed for this emergence of conversation on the wiki. Being able to easily share content and learning that is transparent, allows for emergence and getting to the next level. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Social Media Media Social San Jose 118

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. And it requires thinking above and beyond traditional organizational boundaries.

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Build Change Social Facilitation 115

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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Social Media Game Media Social 87

NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

From there, you can start to understand where to begin conversations. Start planting the seed now for including someone in those conversations who can bring a strategic technology perspective, whether it's you or one of your colleagues. Many non-tech people (i.e., Listen to what they need.

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Tech NTC Listserv NTEN 86

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Cyclists sign up for the ride and seek out people in their network to sponsor their participation. One of the reasons that challenge events work so well is something called the “martyrdom effect” which finds people feel better about a thing if they have to undergo adversity to achieve it. Use that to your advantage! Yes, they are!

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Ideas People Local Classes 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. Crowdsourcing collective wisdom refers to the aggregation of anonymously produced data from groups of independent, diverse and decentralized people (crowds).

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

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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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50