Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters. Free-wheeling.

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. It was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable.

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Social Media Change Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What was hard?

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Measure Social Media Media Social 96

Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

You can see them in this chart. Once we had to prioritize, some sexy, much-discussed ideas—like celebrating local food—gave way to core MAH values—like celebrating cultural diversity. But the answers hewed to the priorities articulated through these two exercises. Any contract would have done that.

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

If yours is an established organization, you can discuss how your nonprofit was started and the milestones you have reached. Donors don’t like duplication of services, and getting grants will be tough if you can’t articulate how your approach is unique. Management and Organizational Charts. Marketing Plan. Use only text.

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Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

We discovered that if you are in the role of promoting collaboration among others, you need to articulate your definition of collaboration and what your expectations are for outcomes. We developed a one-page chart that can be filled out quickly, but it covers key components of deeper engagement: Who will be the lead from each organization?

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Collaboration Test Roles Goal 28