Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2013

The session was framed by some recent research from UnitedHealth Group and the Optum Institute called Doing Good is Good for You: 2013 Health and Volunteering Study. Encourage help seeking. The last point is asking for help. The key is to be able to accept someone’s help with gratitude and then pay it back or forward.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

The call to action in the letter is clear, and I think one that resonates with any nonprofit who struggles to find more efficient ways to achieve their mission and to raise support from grant-makers and donors to help them do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you are interested in online fundraising but don’t have the resources to build a custom platform for donations like charity: water, there are applications that help nonprofits get started with online fundraising quickly, including Salsa and Network for Good. Pencils of Promise (@PencilsOfPromis) December 10, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults. Training Design'

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 9, 2020

I remember that being a challenging transition for me when I started working from home in 2013. Even as we transition out of sheltering in place, you may find a digital tool like Trello helpful for managing your nonprofit's communication program. For some of you, that might mean that you're working remotely for the first time ever.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

But what if you learn best face-to-face or with a group? If you want to keep your nonprofit tech skills sharp join your neighborhood group. We’d love to help you start a new meetup. Join us next week to learn what nonprofit techies are doing in your community. You betcha! That’s what NetSquared Local is for!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2016

This is an increase of 2% from last year and is up $1 from 2013. What’s even cooler is how the value jumps higher when volunteers give their professional skills in law, finance, marketing, operations, you name it. Volunteerism is about helping other people, giving of one’s self. Giving your skills makes you better.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Whether building a business or pursuing higher education, BITS maintains that all participants greatly benefit from skills acquired through their peer mentorship, such as research, writing, problem solving, concept development, money management, public speaking, and sales presentations. " Keeping Business in Mind, Community at Heart.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 9, 2013

While in Liberia, Kendima never used a computer; however, through dedication, hard work, and a little help from ITWorks , Kendima’s dream of working in IT has been realized. “I And now, with the help of Bank of America’s Charitable Foundation’s. Here, the students get to flaunt their new skills in a professional environment.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Whether building a business or pursuing higher education, BITS maintains that all participants greatly benefit from skills acquired through their peer mentorship, such as research, writing, problem solving, concept development, money management, public speaking, and sales presentations. " Keeping Business in Mind, Community at Heart.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge Participant - KI EcoCenter. Participate and Learn. Our live webinar and workshop events are a great way to teach web skills, engage with our community, expand digital media learning, and empower story makers to make impact. Nonprofits can change the world through storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

I’m in Minnesota for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference where I am doing a plenary session on Saturday morning and two breakout sessions. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Takeaways. Balance in Hyperconnected World. The Information Diet. 18 Minutes A Day. Mindfulness'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

He will serve in this position until Franco finishes his term in August 2013. In 1985, he started Fundación Paraguaya in order to develop social innovations that could help create jobs and increase family income among the country’s poor. So I asked for a leave of absence from Fundación Paraguaya and dove in.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2013

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode. And, he explains how experience design helps your business and how you can harness its power for business growth. What''s The Future Of Business?

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JUNE 8, 2022

The Urban Institute is a “nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity.” American Council of Learned Societies. Urban Institute Ed Data Portal. Distinction – Website for Education. Distinction – Website for Cultural.

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Media Cause

MARCH 10, 2022

That’s really where I started building my skills, my confidence, and learning how to navigate the industry. I made a promise to myself early on that if I ever stopped learning and growing, I would move on; fast forward 8 years, and here I am, still building my skill sets and enjoying new challenges each and every day. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees. My Theme for the Year: Learning. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

The annual conference helps inform, enable and enhance the strategic nature of their work. This year’s conference, “The Future We Make” had four themes – strategic philanthropy, modern day slavery, agriculture and nutrition, and education, learning, and employment. Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

The second book also features cartoons from my good friend, Rob Cottingham at Social Signal. But the secret sauce was working with a peer learning group of Packard grantees that tested the frameworks and contributed many of the case stories in the book. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon, who we met this summer in Cambodia.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Having people with the right skills on board, fully engaged, and in the right positions is of high importance. If program evaluation has been done well, this may be one useful tool to help convince stakeholders to buy in (Harris, 2010). Codify, then adapt” (Paul, 2013). How should the program expand? Sutton & Rao, 2014).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Needless to say, I learned a lot and wanted to capture some of it here as well as the Tweet transcript. The first session focused on self-awareness skills. Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. You can find the resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). In Education. In Philanthropy.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Additionally, the change would help clarify the purpose and intention of what Brand Camp was meant to be and how it could help nonprofits. Future Cause Camps experiencing last-minute speaker cancelations used the “when all else fails, form a panel” plan, learned from 2010.). In 2013, the snow made a bigger impact.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then, make your way to the 2013 Washington Nonprofit Conference. With 25 sessions to choose from, led by experts in nonprofit and commercial marketing, you’ll take away immediately actionable learnings. You’ll help your company stay current. You can share what you learn after the conference.

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Achieve

MAY 24, 2014

They all have talked about how their parents gave them a computer when they were little, how they had opportunities to learn programming on computer mainframes at their local university, or how they landed a summer internship at a technology company. Learning how to program is not about getting a job. The next Bill Gates?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Bahia Ramos wrote this post as part of a learning culmination process where we reflected on the design and what was learned as we moved into another round of giving days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

I was invited to a briefing session with other media and bloggers to learn more. I first head of this book after reading this article in the New York Times back in March, 2013. The book shares many insights about how effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills can to success for “Givers.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I was able to develop dynamic, innovative, and knowledgeable courses using e-learning tools such as Articulate, Camtasia, Microsoft Office, and worked with graphic artist to develop custom interactive multimedia instruction (IMI). All NMI certificate courses will be offered online starting in March, 2013. Like this article?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I did it!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

John Haydon helps to clarify Facebook''s changes to their news feed and how this will affect your organization''s account. No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September. Trying to connect with folks worldwide? Register now! Check out their work at [link].

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? A United Front.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! Did you know that play can help you, too? Not in San Francisco?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. Makers are essential because the first prototypes are almost always learning experiences.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2015

He’s spent his career working to inspire others take action, and he personifies a generation of talented people who want to use their skills to help others. He first started working with the NBA to help grow its fantasy basketball platform. Why will this action help? Justin is a U.S. Jason Rezaian. from Iranian custody.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2016

It was a warm September day in 2013 and I was about an hour outside of Austin, TX on a bus heading to the airport. I wanted to write this book because I want more non-profit professionals to feel confident in their storytelling skills and be able to tell great stories. It’s the book I wished I was starting out as fundraiser.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! Did you know that play can help you, too? Not in San Francisco?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. L3Cs were specifically designed to help social entrepreneurs raise capital from a much broader range of investors.

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