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. Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days. The foundations learned several things that helped them surpass their goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This book is for sales professionals who are either struggling to achieve their sales goals, or who are meeting them but still want to improve their performance,” says Weinberg. Packed with proven concepts, principles, tips, techniques and actionable 60 takeaways, this book will help you: Generate and qualify leads.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This book is for sales professionals who are either struggling to achieve their sales goals, or who are meeting them but still want to improve their performance,” says Weinberg. Packed with proven concepts, principles, tips, techniques and 60 actionable takeaways, this book will help you: Generate and qualify leads.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Define your project and the project goals. This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. These will likely include: Goals – The S.M.A.R.T. Why is this goal important?

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. We are all responsible for defining the goals, doing the work required, and being part of the solution. Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. They’re organized, actionable and tell a complete story of how you’re going to achieve your goals. Creating a Fundraising Plan.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes. Ask if anyone has any questions.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Forward funders have coalesced around an aspirational goal to move from individual grantmaking strategies to a shared vision and coordinated action. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Note from Beth: I made a personal goal for myself to get past my dislike of spreadsheets and become more fluent. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Why get good at Excel? Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

With Giving Tuesday and the end-of-year giving season fast approaching, your nonprofit is likely ramping up efforts to reach its annual fundraising goals. Finally, like any other fundraising strategy, you should track success metrics for your text messages and use them to evaluate your texts’ effectiveness. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

One major gift-size donation can be the difference between meeting your fundraising goal and not. Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Due to their size, major gifts can be game-changers for fundraising teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. Engagement'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially. It is earned as much as it is defined.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Remember your goal is persuading consumers. The goal is to develop sustained relationships through habitual positive exposures. Their long-form copy and primetime targeting were more effective for their goals. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? Passionate explaining of impact?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 12, 2012

Before you can create goals to work toward, you need to know where you are. No matter which fundraising techniques you use, you need to include these three targets. Step 5 Set your goals. Once you know which strategies you’ll choose, set goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely.

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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. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The idea more is to see what is working for others to see if it is something that can be replicated without appearing you are simply copying their techniques. Rather, you would make sure to follow up with information about specific financial needs and goals for your organization. Everyone is working towards a noble cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Ask, how much progress are we making towards our goals?

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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. delivered).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. All fundraisers know that their main goal is to raise money, but not all of them think about sustainability or scalability. Realistic fundraising goal. Let’s begin.

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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. . Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. They do coincide in several areas and share many goals. Performance Metrics Analyses.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

with the goal of making them usable by as many people as possible. We have the technology and techniques necessary to make the web adequately accessible. There are various tools and techniques available to test your website for accessibility. First, what is web accessibility? websites, operating systems, apps, etc.)

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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. NGOS work as a network to reach broader civil society goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Articulating measurable goals. Overwhelmed by data collection process. Technical or Systems Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Finger Focusing: Many times you will be using the auto-focus feature, but you may decide that focusing on something else in the frame supports your communication goals better. You can pick out the best one later. Mobile phone cameras that have touch screen allow you focus with your fingers. Simply touch your subject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results. A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Set nightly/weekly fundraising goals. Set nightly/weekly fundraising goals. Setting goals greatly increases your chances of fundraising success. Encourage your callers to set nightly or weekly donation goals to instill a sense of accomplishment when they reach and exceed their objectives. Create a standardized script.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

These are techniques even smaller organizations can implement every day to improve their marketing efforts, see more impressive results, and gain even more loyalty from their communities. It's also shockingly economical and far more effective than traditional marketing techniques. Partner with your community.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. Research Questions. Deliverables. What’s Next. Introduction.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. First Step: Setting Goals Is social media working for your organization? Start with setting clear goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.” Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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