Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. In summary, the purpose of the dot voting is to: Identify the strongest ideas and patterns of interest. Build consensus. Listen to all participant perspectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

That’s the summary of a post I wrote last week for the Harvard Business Review Blog called “ Go Ahead Take A Failure Bow.” Now you have some practical techniques for learning from failure and a reward! What’s your #npfail story? 13ntcbets ow.ly/k24ok

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" " Ed Mitchell posted a summary from the online community ROI report that looks at effective communication related to online community projects. What are your techniques? I'm focusing on Part 4: Effective Ways to Make Your Case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. In Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” offers several simple principles to incorporate based on brain science, including: Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Filtering: Identifying groups of good sources or key words – so you can laser in on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

If you’re motivated to go deeper on LinkedIn after reading this summary, you will want to check out my curated list of nonprofit and LinkedIn resources here. For the executive summary, visit Ditch Digital Dabbling: How Small Businesses + Nonprofits Can Master Online Marketing.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

This technique grabs readers’ attention by putting them in Dustin’s shoes. Both posts began with a striking quote from Dustin, a summary of his story, and a call to action to read his full story and find a local service project. This hazy image draws attention to the complexity of his experience in the Marine Corps during wartime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Sean Stannard-Stockton , author of the Tactical Philthanthropy blog, has posted a podcast interview with Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and president CompuMentor and TechSoup where they talk about the NetSquared project and the usefulness of "wisdom of crowd" techniques for nonprofits and philthanthropy. The NpTech Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Staff were asked to use a technique called “ Rose, Bud, Thorn ” to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities for change. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Executive Summary. The Executive Summary is the first thing that any potential partner or supporter will read, and it introduces the mission and purpose of your nonprofit. Because this section of your nonprofit business plan is a summary of the facts contained throughout the whole document, it is often written last.

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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. What is Brainstorming? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. How are you using social network analysis techniques and tools to analyze your network?

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MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. User Research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

In summary, AI’s role in fundraising initiatives goes far beyond automation. Exploring Advanced Strategies AI-driven fundraising uses a wide range of techniques. It does this by finding the best timing, messaging, and asking amounts for each donor. AI-driven algorithms can help nonprofits get more donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites. Here's a Firefox Extension called " Post Wisdom " that acts as a blogging coach. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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? I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method? Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted. Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning.

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

And finally, consider low-cost donor cultivation techniques: Your board or top staff should each be able to call 3-4 top recent donors once a month to thank them. How much time do your staff and board spend with donors? This of course suggests organization-wide use of a very smart software constituent relationship management (CRM) tool.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). It is also a good technique to easily capture the digital artifacts from the event to prepare the after story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

One of my key themes for the year is to look at failure and learning – and will also have a chance to dive into a conversation at the upcoming COF Conference with colleague Peter Sims , Author of Little Bets and founder of BLKSHP. His book has a great summary of the research out there on what is failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Because the taking the assessment in full would require a lot more time than we had for the workshop, Jo prepared a high level summary. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Opening Exercise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2021

What two or three of the best techniques you teach in the book can leaders use to help an employee have more influence and impact in their company/organization? It is a five-page summary of all the takeaways that managers can use to help their employees build their influence and enhance their impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2005

The workshop has provided a wealth of learning about practical techniques and theory of online community building as well as allowed some time for experimentation or action learning. The graphic above will take you a visual summary of the conversation (another technique I learned from the workshop) or if you prefer a text summary.

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MAY 18, 2021

Gorton’s technique arose when a former leader of his ended each meeting with the rally cry “go forth and be awesome”. The post Managing eLearning Podcast: Episode 2 Summary & Highlights appeared first on Web Courseworks. Listen to the full podcast here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. Imagine your photography teacher able to explain different shot angles, subjects, apertures, and lighting techniques with nothing more than well-crafted prompts.

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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. 1. In addition, we had the in-country team leader from Morocco, Widad, translate the instructions a third time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising. " Marketing and Fundraising Charitable gift catalogs ignites blog buzz notes the Donor Power Blog, providing context and a roundup of blogosphere reaction.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Good practices include quickly sending an email summary of the discussion and next steps, and, my personal favorite, sending a handwritten note conveying gratitude for their time and interest in your nonprofit. Recognize that being turned down isn’t the end of the world. This list is not exhaustive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The meeting facilitator can also facilitate these activities by preparing a summary at the meeting. Consider what tools and techniques, digital or otherwise, can be used to maximize their interaction with the in-room attendees. You can then have a productive discussion about what people have already shared.

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