Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. Flickr Photo by Sebr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

This year I’ve been focusing on data visualization and techniques for nonprofits – and working on my visual thinking skills without letting my basic drawing skills become a barrier. Better Method: Create Visualizations of Important Data and Pull Together On One Slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. It was the right medium, but the wrong method. Back in 2012 , I wrote why nonprofits must avoid the year-end online giving trap.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

But there is a slight error in that line of thinking as it restricts the progress that comes with adoption of new practices, techniques, and technology. 47% of nonprofits generated the same or less revenue in 2013 compared to 2012. Tactics such as blogging and sharing video content increase the effectiveness further.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

And, there is also a Lean Start Up Conference taking place in December that I will cover on this blog, taking the lens of how to apply to nonprofit work. The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” Kyle Rush, Author and Technology Consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I have an in-depth blog post about that coming up, but I wanted to touch on a theme that came up: “Fail early and often. ” They have a specific method for this: The Rules. One method they use is the “ Joyful Funeral.” ” The Failure Bow (Click for Photo for More Information).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

They follow the scientific method which includes coming up with hypothesis question, collecting data, analyzing results, and getting insight to their questions. Flickr Photo by the Consortium. Note from Beth: Both my kids have worked on projects for their school’s science fair.

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