Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

Whether you’re trying to equip your team with the latest fundraising techniques or preparing volunteers to tackle new challenges, the quality of your training materials will impact your organization’s effectiveness. Use digital storytelling techniques. Ask staff and external stakeholders to test drive your content. What’s resonating?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Business leaders who wonder whether they should conduct an employee survey should think about these five good reasons for conducting surveys, as recommended by John Kador and Katherine J. Armstrong in their book, Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys : 1.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

Tools fall into one of three categories – content analysis, surveys, or analytics. Marlene Oliveira, Copywriter and Communications Consultant, shares an interview with Jason Shim, “ Google Analytics Basics for Nonprofits: Interview with Jason Shim.” Big Data and Nonprofit Performance Measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. Ellie taught a great trick.

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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. They can even be done virtually!

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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. Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Here are 10 questions Polaris recommends you ask employees as part of a wide-ranging employee satisfaction and engagement survey : For each of the following statements, indicate if you: • Strongly disagree • Disagree • Somewhat disagree • Agree • Strongly agree 1. Don't Praise.

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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. The book is a quick and handy resource for any leader, manager or Human Resource professional. Don't Praise.

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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? Don't Praise.

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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. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. See the interview I did for Arrive Magazine , pages 34-37).

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

After choosing a few donor segments that you’d like to focus on, you can take it a step further by sending out a survey to this group to gather even more information. Crafting A Survey Surveys are not always necessary, but they are incredibly helpful in gathering data and really deep diving into your different donor segments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a brief pre-survey where I was able to collect information about success stories, challenges, and current social media usage. The survey asked participants to share a story that illustrates how social media has brought value to their organization. The survey asked participants to share their great social media challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it. Source: grist.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. I did a pre-survey. One of the technique I use is to ask people to write down on an index card one small step they will take following the workshop. Evaluation.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

and a video interview explaining "data" as anything that can be digitized.) Mobile users are doing a whole lot more than making calls — 38% of them (and rising) use their devices to access the Internet ( View survey results ). See, for example, Lucy Bernholz's "What Kind of Data are we Talking About?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy.

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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. 125,000 Subject-Matter Experts (consultants) 2 Subject Matter Experts will teach 40 hours per year on irrigation techniques and how to install the new equipment and get $15,000 each.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists. You’ve probably heard of the narrative technique “show, don’t tell.” Gather insights through surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The point was driven home to me by a commenter from a nonprofit organization named Paulette who works for an arts organization who left this comment on the interview with Marc from the Chicago Symphony: We're trying to figure out how to best engage in social media. What are some advanced techniques for listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

During the one-hour free webinar hosted by Wild Apricot , we share some ideas, got feedback, and identified additional people and organizations to interview for the book. Please take our brief survey. We also set up a Facebook Group to continue the discussion on self-care for nonprofits. Set Limits:Derek Sivers Hell Yeah.

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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. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. mHub is eHub for developers - instead of serving up applications, Max leads us to sites that offer usable scripts, snippets, widgets, or techniques for our development efforts. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Depending on the nature of the retreat, board members may be required to take a survey, review material, complete worksheets, read books, and participate in interview calls. They will also send out a pre-retreat survey to solicit thoughts and feelings about uncomfortable issues. And for good reason, most stink at it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

In my work, I have 20 minutes to interview Bill Gates and I need my equipment to work." I think it is a fabulous technique for capturing and sharing knowledge from conferences and other nonprofit gatherings as I noted here. Middle of the Road. All in all, podcamp was a valuable source of knowledge exchange.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 16, 2019

Thanks to the web, we have more access to information about our donors than ever, as well as the ability to survey our donors and examine how they talk about our cause. Note, however, that if you survey your donors or ask questions of a potential donor, you have to learn to read the answer behind the answer.

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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. Note that Martin uses the word "survey" in a slightly more expansive way than is typical in the United States. There are two elements of the research: tracking and interviewing. What surprised us?

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques. Devereux Adult Resilience Survey (DARS).

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2024

Surveys, focus groups, and open forums give donors a voice and the opportunity to share their perspectives. One effective technique is to craft personalized messages that tap into donors’ motivations and values. This could be done through surveys, interviews, or even casual conversations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

▼ November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. User Research. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Now let me say upfront, this blog post isn’t going to be about those techniques for diversifying an office culture. A few years ago, I was called in for an interview, and when I arrived, the building the business was in had several steps to the front door and no ramp in sight. Pretty big and worthwhile stuff. Dixon, K.A.,

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So, Steven, this is where I’d like for you to actually turn this slide into a survey. So here’s the next survey, Steven, right off the bat, just to make sure everybody’s kind of present and getting us grounded. I know people are transitioning from meetings and … so please activate the survey. Here we go.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

This technique encompasses researching and collecting data about your learners to gain a clearer understanding of their behaviors and preferences. Follow these steps to conduct a successful analysis: Run surveys amongst your audience to gather insights about their preferred learning styles. The answer lies in audience analysis.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

This technique encompasses researching and collecting data about your learners to gain a clearer understanding of their behaviors and preferences. Follow these steps to conduct a successful analysis: Run surveys amongst your audience to gather insights about their preferred learning styles. The answer lies in audience analysis.

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