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. Moments in which best practices, know-how, and insights are exchanged, streamlined stories are high leverage strategies to make knowledge memorable.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Preparing your statement requires accurate, up-to-date financial information. Training your accounting teams on the importance of granularity in financial reporting and the use of resources like the UCOA can significantly improve your financial management practices. Use financial management software with analytical tools.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

By Marie Webb We all woke up one morning to the possibility of chatting with our computers to access information, and generative AI suddenly seemed to be everywhere, ushering in a transformative experience. It’s crucial for any product involving sensitive data, be it your organization’s intellectual property or donor information.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

You can start by sharing information and agreeing to work on something for a few short weeks or months. While some work in formal partnerships, many more engage in informal ones where they align funding or work on a project together for a limited time. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly.

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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. You can do a whole network analysis. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership. Organization. Hierarchical Position.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Networking and Collaboration: Foundations can serve as connectors, facilitating collaborations among their grantees and other community organizations. Thought Leadership and Knowledge Sharing : Foundations can contribute to the field by investing in research and disseminating knowledge about effective practices and innovative approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Like many nonprofits, the rapidly evolving environment around and within us was littered by a practice of ad hoc documentation and person to person knowledge sharing. Explain why it will be important or informative for their work. Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice. Create a Staff Engagement Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Devon summarized the data in the above presentation.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate the data collection process, theoretically providing nonprofits with all the information they need to answer these questions about their supporters. AI tools are able to take an omnichannel approach to donor analysis. Measure affinity in real-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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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 started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

You have to do everything in your power to knock down silos so they can be laid end-to-end, with information and knowledge freely flowing throughout. Competing calls to action can result in “ analysis paralysis , ” resulting in no decision. As the fundraiser, you must lead the way in developing a culture that supports this.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. January 2018 : Ok, can we agree on some best practices how to address this as grantors and grantees? What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees? Putting an emphasis on listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. The scientific information is presented in a format that non-scientists can understand and apply. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. Jane Hart: Jane has been blogging for many years and writes about informal and workplace learning. Then asked us to do analysis based on: Age. Organization.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Types of fundraising software to consider When you think about fundraising software, you probably first think of online donation platforms that allow nonprofits to facilitate online gifts. Information about donors’ engagement levels and giving potential. Save your most-used reports as templates to reuse in future data analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix. Here’s a summary: There was a range of practice for using data and measurement to improve social media and demonstrate impact: Crawl.

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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. In this guide, we’ll explore the basics of donor acquisition and some nonprofit digital marketing best practices for finding new donors. Capture new visitor information by employing lead capture forms (e.g.,

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

4: Media Measurement Requires Quantity and Quality : This principle is about measuring both quantative and qualitative information. We’ve come a long way since the early days of social media in terms of measurement practice. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

An analysis through an in-depth survey accompanied by a few short one-on-one interviews with the projected user base and decision makers within the organization can aid tremendously. In this search for information, it is vital to focus on the objectives you want to achieve by the e-learning courses or training. Get feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. 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.&#.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Administering continuing medical education (CME) is no simple task— from the advanced accreditation reporting to the ongoing evolution of medical best practices, it can be a huge administrative task for your team. Evolving Medical Practices. However, this only represents part of the picture for your association’s members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I am hoping to gain a greater understanding of innovative and practical solutions to food security which can be applied at the local level to increase efficiency and access to food across my home state. Director of Information Technology, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. “ Jennifer Thall. Principal Consultant, Heller Consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Peer learning is certainly not new, and there is rich insight draw on from the study of communities of practice. It’s a form of network building. Yet, we still have much to learn about how funders can tap the power of peer learning. When should you (and when shouldn’t you) consider starting a peer learning group?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. Twitter is part of the real-time Web, meaning it enables people to communicate, share information, spread news, and distribute links in “real-time&# as it happens.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

Database comprehensiveness ⁠— You want your donors to find the information they need using your matching gift database. Robust reporting facilitates informed decision-making and aids in demonstrating the impact of your efforts to stakeholders. Explore top-recommended strategies and best practices here.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

Putting that aside—thank goodness—allow me to share a few of the takeaways and best practices addressed in my whitepaper. Practice institutional self-reflection. I believe that at any given point you should maintain a running analysis of fundraising metrics for a minimum of three, but ideally five consecutive years.

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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. Notes from Session. gpf13 #philanthropy.

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