Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Articulating measurable goals. Finding the time to devote to measurement. Technical or Systems Challenges.

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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. Starting Conversations. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

So, when we talk about social media and being open and embracing the conversation, one of the most comment questions that comes up is: To what extent do you need to moderate the discussion in a socnet space or blog so it isn't antithetical to your mission?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

The people who produce the programming or who have the relationships produce the messaging, so the conversations are authentic and personal. Program staff invent guerrilla marketing techniques, run the photobooths and program evaluations, and send out the follow-up emails. Turns out they were the MOST engaged, the most thoughtful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. There was a lot of energy in the room, some very intense conversations and some great ideas were built. The leadership environment is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. Shooting to edit, particularly conversations. This makes me think about how to incorporate this technique into my live blogging practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. Changing a nonprofit culture isn’t as simple as.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Last night I had a wonderful conversation with Corey Pudhorodsky who is the and brains behind 501c3Cast - Podcast for Nonprofits , a weekly podcast show of interviews and news about Nonprofit volunteers, do-gooders, and professionals. and he has promised to me sound smart and articulate!). I'm on a little podcasting kick here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. These stories need to be written down and it sparked a memory of a conversation I had with Zittrain at iLaw in 2005 who pointed me to a researcher at HBS who was looking at Open Source Software Communities.). UPDATE: His name is Johan Janssens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Defined Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). Afterwards, I facilitated a reflective conversation about the various ideas – what were the patterns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to find examples of some if the concepts I was going to share from the group itself. This helps spark peer conversations and indeed a quick check of the chat transcript shows it to be case. Networked Nonprofits have articulated SMART objectives and a target audience for their Facebook page. Introduction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Our conversation began with my asking Temra, "How are women changing the way we eat?" How do you articulate the sustainable food movement, and how do you explain to people where the bar has been raised? It's really interesting how people used to grow food without it, and now we're seeing a lot more farmers using dry farming techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

It means that you need to engage with a purpose or articulated goal. ” You have to measure conversions from social media – from engagement to whatever action or goal you want people to take. What is a conversion? The questions are below: Which Social Media source leads to the most conversions?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Fall In Love With Understanding Your Donors Problems It is from that point that you will be able to craft and articulate compelling narratives that convert. Addressing these fundamental motivations is key, and by doing so, you’ll witness an increased conversion of donors. Find out what makes them give and what they care about.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Understand the tenants of website conversion rate optimization and user-experience as it pertains to online donation pages and forms; 2. Jacobwith, will teach you advanced storytelling techniques to easily combine your “money story” with impact stories about real people. What You’ll Learn: 1. Martha Piland.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Let’s keep the conversation going. And to be able to have those conversations separate and apart from making the decision, you want folks to be heard. If you’re like me, you might also have half the conversation in your mind before you have it out loud. Ooh, y’all had some great job. I’m jelly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. Make conversation with your team. In past postings Ive shared Marriotts core values. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

You just want to know as much as you reasonably and respectfully can about a prospect so that you can comfortably converse with them and develop an appropriate ask. But if that doesn’t seem to be the problem, the next two things I would look at would be, one, your fundraising technique, your training, and your preparation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. There was a very productive conversation. I was also impressed with the report out, not only were they brief and to the point, but they were able to clearly articulate social outcomes in the social media strategy. Real-time improvisation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At the same time, leaders continue to struggle with one of their toughest jobs, developing and articulating their overall strategy and priorities, especially during times of change." Make conversation with your team. GEN X Employees -- Like having their professionalism and growing knowledge valued.

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