Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Here’s an example using a virtual sticky note app.For more ideas on creating meeting norms, see this post. You need to think through purpose, roles, meeting norms, materials, facilitator agenda (specially if you are using online tools to do activities like brainstorming, etc), technical, scheduling, and communication.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

The Role of AI in Fundraising Utilizing AI in Charities At its core, AI in fundraising uses AI to analyze data. In summary, AI’s role in fundraising initiatives goes far beyond automation. Exploring Advanced Strategies AI-driven fundraising uses a wide range of techniques. They can also benefit from smart donation asks.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Before, content marketing was a loose collection of ideas, thoughts and conjectures about the way consumers MIGHT respond to a new marketing models. The idea of offering consumers thoughtful and researched and relevant content for nothing seemed like a great way to spend a lot of time and resources to get nothing direct in return.

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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. Encourage as many ideas as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

You can plan the topics, the minutes you allocate on each topic, the speakers but also the roles for each attendee (facilitator, tech steward, note-taker, etc). Icebreakers for a Pandemic : Some ideas to help inspire people to keep optimistic and check-in about their feelings. Interactive Meeting Techniques. List of Energizers.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It leverages peer-to-peer style fundraising techniques leading up to events like galas and auctions to call on your nonprofits’ top supporters to get more involved than ever before. Your ambassadors can play a significant role in the success of your event, so clearly lay out goals they can work to achieve.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 6, 2024

While its expertise at wrangling a stampede of ideas into a herd allows you to lean into unfamiliar situations. Paired with scenario planning, decision trees, SWOT analysis and similar forecasting techniques AI can bring order to confusing or precarious situations and give you the confidence to make hard choices.

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2021

Techniques Used in Training and Development of Employees GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training and development in HRM are one of the key contributors to an organization’s success. Well, most of the time the techniques and methods that organizations use for the training of employees are either traditional or inadequate. You wonder why?

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2021

Techniques Used in Training and Development of Employees GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training and development in HRM are one of the key contributors to an organization’s success. Well, most of the time the techniques and methods that organizations use for the training of employees are either traditional or inadequate. You wonder why?

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2021

Techniques Used in Training and Development of Employees Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Training and development in HRM are one of the key contributors to an organization’s success. Mentoring Mentoring as a training technique for employees has its benefits. You wonder why?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

What are the top GivingTuesday best practices and fundraising ideas to make you stand out in 2024? Fundraising techniques, such as peer-to-peer, crowdfunding, and special event fundraising (especially if you’re looking at how to move your events to virtual). Potential corporate or major donor gift sponsors/matches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models? Where do our ideas about IT come from? Often, the engineer role is filled by an outside developer, consultant, or firm. Defining the different roles helps avoid this. In the nonprofit sector, we have some big challenges in this area.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. Presentation skills: Good presentation skills can help employees convey their ideas clearly to clients and teams and engage them.

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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. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Check out this list of 7 spring fundraising ideas that focus on raising money AND deepening relationships with your current donors. this is one of the best fundraising techniques to use. In fact, some of your donors may not be comfortable taking on this role. A 24-Hour Spring Fundraising Blitz On Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 6, 2013

He has worked in multiple capacities throughout his career including roles in production, management, consulting, and sales. The techniques that PR professionals use to generate positive press are numerous and diverse. If you are submitting an idea for a guest post, be flexible. Give them three ideas from which to choose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Role Playing Simulation For Making ROI Argument: Many nonprofits are often faced with the question, “What the value of social media&# from senior management. Next, we did a role-play. Ellie taught a great trick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Here’s an example using a virtual sticky note app.For more ideas on creating meeting norms, see this post. You need to think through purpose, roles, meeting norms, materials, facilitator agenda (specially if you are using online tools to do activities like brainstorming, etc), technical, scheduling, and communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Know your role. This tool is called ImpactKit. Design Thinking is a natural process for extracting those “simple” nuggets from the system.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

They whisk people away from their everyday lives and connect them with ideas that can revolutionize how they think. This technique grabs readers’ attention by putting them in Dustin’s shoes. It would be tough to explain its important role in his story in a brief social post that is also meant to encourage people to volunteer.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders. And practice, practice, practice!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

Several community foundations will be part of Give Local America , a campaign that encourages and supports local philanthropy and the 100th anniversary of community foundations in the US and the vital role they play. The campaign is organized by Kimbia and you can get a good overview with this infographic.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Rajat Harlalka is a Product Manager with over eight years of experience in the mobile industry primarily in technology, product management and marketing role. Another startup – Nuiku, whose goal is to build apps that are virtual assistants for specific roles, has raised $1.6 Still, her existence is one leap in that direction.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Refusal to Change Original Idea : It has become yet another startup cliche that “execution is more important than ideas”, even one I’ve repeated on this site. But I witnessed many founders who were simply too attached to their original idea. You have to try a bunch of different ideas, until something sticks.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

When the idea took off, ZFP ran with itleading to a James Beard Award and Basque Culinary World Prize-winning nonprofit thats partnered with Chez Panisse, Noma, Subway, and 100 other restaurants, enlisted prominent winemakers, and funded $19 million in regenerative farming projects, sequestering more than 100,000 tons of CO2e.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. There were also several workshop sessions where new ideas were presented. Localized Content Delivery.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I believe that novel perspectives generate “additive” moments: instances when one member of a team makes another member’s idea even better. So, the question is this: Are you hiring and organizing to access the widest range of ideas and perspectives? Diverse teams have also been found to produce the most creative ideas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Recognizing the significant role of NGOs as influential agents of change on a global scale, The Global Journal has sought to move beyond outdated clichés and narrow conceptions about what an NGO is and does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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