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. “Who How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What was hard?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently. Be sure to have leadership kick off the session by discussing the importance of philanthropy to the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Discussions on how to improve results are rarely part of staff meetings. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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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. " The discussion reminded of the one I heard in the UK and read later on the Circuit Riders list " Is Open Source Fair Trade for Nonprofits ? Or, has this issue already been discussed in this context?

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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. Discussions about what type and level of risk is acceptable and when risk is acceptable (early in the development process, contained to a defined time period or clearly articulated experiment) are useful here.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

Your mission statement should articulate your organization’s purpose, values, and goals. It should be concise and specific, and it should reflect the needs and priorities of your community. Analyze the data: Use statistical tools and techniques to analyze the data you have collected to identify patterns and isolate needs.

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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

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. Must be more than math.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes. Having the traces of the discussion unfold via social media channels is important both during the event as well as after the event for learning capture. I’ll look forward to read any reflections from Alan on how this worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. No wonder I am still tired! It always helps me improve practice. Teaching in an international context. NGOS in India.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Let us discuss, my friends. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. And so their job is a reflection of that. Uh-oh, I know somebody just looked at the computer and just rolled your eye. I know you did. I know you did. You were like, “Rest when? I have 9,245 things to do.” ” You better rest.

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Management Work Video Slides 89

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

You can view (and download ) the slides and audio here, which feature our provocations and the discussion that followed. Our desire to "protect kids"--which reflects twenty years of clamping down (at least in the U.S.) Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised.

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