Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. As a trainer and facilitator, the work I do with organizations and networks, often on behalf of a foundation for its grantees, is capacity building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. For example, the Irvine New Leadership Network project that has used network mapping for two purposes: 1) evaluation 2) direct network engagement. Some questions to ask: What patterns do you see? Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The four key questions are: What data to collect? How to collect data? Making meaning. Communicating Results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? Do numbers only matter? Do numbers only matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Evaluate your progress and course correct if some of your strategies aren’t resonating with your audience. the timing of their donation)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition. How are answering the question: capacity building for what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Here’s a curated transcript of the chat that I pulled together. But for this post, I’d like to dig into one of the questions, ”How do you measure your network so you know if it is growing stronger? How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Do you need sentiment analysis? Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. While there are many technology consultants available, take the time to evaluate what they specialize in and the services they provide. Set concrete guidelines.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ensure any potential provider offers timely assistance when facing technical issues or questions. Robust reporting facilitates informed decision-making and aids in demonstrating the impact of your efforts to stakeholders. Carefully evaluate these elements in your matching gift software buying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. You will find answers to questions like, “Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?” ” Plus many more provocative questions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? Do only numbers matter? And so it goes …….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

Questions to answer in an assessment include: What purpose does your nonprofit serve? Evaluate each nonprofit on the list and determine the best candidates. Further evaluation can be conducted on each partner after step 5) and once both sides have agreed to meet for the first time. Objectivity is key.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

If you are the one doing the evaluation of those needs, we recommend creating a team and discussing individual needs on a per department basis to ensure the best possible fit. Be sure to methodically ask yourself this set of questions before choosing an LMS: What are your development objectives? Determine your objectives in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation.

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Gyrus

JUNE 23, 2016

If you are the one doing the evaluation of those needs, we recommend creating a team and discussing individual needs on a per department basis to ensure the best possible fit. Be sure to methodically ask yourself this set of questions before choosing an LMS: What are your development objectives? Determine your objectives in advance.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution. Fewer questions from frustrated users, members who are readily and eagerly engaging with your LMS, and increases in non-dues revenue as a result.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators. This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Once you understand and evaluate various key metrics and corresponding benchmarks, you can use your analysis as a blueprint to think strategically about how to improve your event’s future fundraising results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. What do you do to facilitate it? Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

There is no easy answer to the question of build, buy, or customize. Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported. What about development environments and tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Some questions: What have you seen in terms of partnerships for people seeking funds for games? This is a time pressure question!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. What worked?

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

This year, in particular, this is an important question. . Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Invest in evaluation tools. Digital-first fundraising enables instant capture and analysis of donor data.

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Forj

JUNE 3, 2021

An ineffective enterprise LMS can drastically increase the resources needed to facilitate eLearning. For example, if member organizations are regularly running into challenges using your system, that would lead to many questions that your team has to answer. Learner Submission and Multi-Credit Scenarios.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Expert speakers aim to answer the big questions that experienced fundraisers and marketers face, such as how to build the best staff, how to stay motivated, and what new technologies to try. Join more than 40 nonprofit organizations and over 70 MLG professionals in sessions featuring overall trends, insights, and analysis.

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