Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. 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. Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. I’ve followed Cathy Davidson’s work ever since I stumbled upon her work at Hastac.

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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

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. What techniques are you using? Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Also, they make good use of their analytics, evaluating whether or not it drove traffic to the web site, resonated on Facebook by analyzing Facebook insights, or they were able to convert audience to an action or conversations. Engagement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Run successful ads repeatedly until they stop selling. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. Key Takeaway #3: Stick With What Works Ogilvy was struck by research showing repeated ads retained readership. Lean into what works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. Also, you need, as Jan Gordon points out in the skype video interview, to know the audience’s content consumption patterns and interests. The best way to learn these skills is study how the experts work.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. Let’s bring those up, we’ll see if it works here. . I’m going to kind of skip through the bio here, but I got it right here, Lindsay. – [Steven] Yeah.

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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. Surveys and Interviews. Research Questions. Deliverables.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The 45 page report is based on an extensive literature search and interviews with Philanthropy professionals who are currently experimenting with Web 2.0 tools and techniques. Many we interviewed felt that communicating those innovative efforts through these new technologies makes sense. Leverage the great work of others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. I have a process where I do an "exit interview." Peter Campbell mentioned he had bump in traffic - so glad that it was worked both ways. see July 4th nose dive).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

So instead of just talking about the wide needs as if it’s a fact, include: testimonials, statistics, reports, articles, interviews, etc. Objective One Example: “ Project Name will work with 50 farmers to provide sustainable and innovative irrigation practices that will increase irrigation by 25 percent each year for three years.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. Blogs can be a great source of 360 evaluation. I'm going to call it AMORE. What's Next?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. Most nonprofits use a number of interwoven tools, each of which works together to reach supporters on the right platform, at the right time, and with the right message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What worked? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. Working with the team at the Meyer Trust - Marie, Amy, Aaron, and everyone was fantastic. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. Background: Why They Did What They Did The Henry Art Gallery exhibition we worked with, Vortexhibition Polyphonica , was intended to explore three big ideas: Different voices “intervene” or add new points of view to the exhibition at periodic intervals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Did it work? What was your approach?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010 How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work Research from universities around the country show that employees who "click" with each other at work have more career success. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010 How To Create A "Best Places To Work" Company Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, recently completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2019

I was impressed by his commitment to putting visitors first - and his technique for inviting more of his colleagues to do so as well. What we have done is quite simple, but it works: we require decision makers to do audience research themselves. There are two elements of the research: tracking and interviewing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. " What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. The Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! To share techniques and low costs tools for data visualization that nearly any user can begin using quickly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

ToneCheck , a software program that works with Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010, helps to ensure your tone is clearly communicated and understood. The program evaluates words and phrases for the intensity of eight primary emotions, allowing you to adjust the overall tone before you send your message.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011. Plan to work with your mentor for no less than three months, and ideally for six months or longer. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Make that one of your New Year’s resolutions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

To do that, you need to ask specific questions that may not be ones you currently include in your exit interviews. Fortunately, Richard Finnegan, shares in his new book, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad , four key questions you should include in your exit interviews: Why did you decide to leave us?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The survey typically takes respondents seven to 10 minutes to fill out and the results you get will identify your strengths and weaknesses, and will allow you to compare your evaluators responses to your own self-assessment. The self-evaluation survey is free and its the first step in the program.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010 The Five Points Of Professionalism Heres more good advice from The Everything Coaching And Mentoring Book : Professional behavior on the job means that work habits are strong and consistent. Your organizations work ethic should be solution- and positive-results-oriented.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,&# without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings. I appreciate all the work you’ve put into it, as do your team members.&# "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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