VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. Know your own Engagement and Impact. Where were your strengths?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Quantity matters.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? What are the staff training implications of the technology choices the agency makes? If the firm uses an ‘agile’ approach, have them discuss how it fits with your fixed deadline. . Do they outsource design? Technology. How many meetings are in person vs remote?

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2021

In this mixed approach, your nonprofit conducts the interviews yourself with the training and support of an expert guide. Should your feasibility study interviews be confidential discussions conducted by an outside consultant? Guided feasibility studies. They’ll then help you determine concrete recommendations based on your findings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

With almost 100 people in the room, I started the session asking folks to shout out the first two words that came to mind when they thought about social media. As expected, I heard two themes – words that describe the power and benefits of social media and those that articulate very real concerns. Is there 24 hour coverage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I just finished the first day of a training on Network Effectiveness for Packard Grantees facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute. In fact, Eugene was watching the ant trails from the training session - we used the hashtag #packfound. If community guidelines are formally articulated, they need to be enforced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training. Here are some examples of the questions you can ask adult learners to write down and then discuss in small groups. Training Design' You have to listen to every comment and accept it as a gift with enthusiasm and a smile. Here are some tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The discussion was not a black and white debate about the definition of transparency or whether it was good or bad. There was a rich discussion about defining effectiveness and how to measure it, but what interested me more was the discussion about measuring transparency and its links to effectiveness.

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Philanthropy Effective Chapter Measure 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

This is the fourth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Facebook discussion board here. My training was in Interaction Design and a design training gives you a very specific way of looking at the world. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. Click to See Larger Version.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Blumenfeld kicked off the discussion by talking about making the transformation into a storytelling organization. Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training. The talk concluded with tips from Brandon Walowitz of Lights.Camera.Help. How to Create a Culture of Storytelling.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2017

This is a great board discussion, especially for your annual meeting. Invest in diversity training. I think it is important for your board of directors to articulate their own vision of inclusivity and to share that vision via your website, on printed materials, etc. The five tips included: Create diversity networks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

So today's Articulating Tech: How to Win Friends and Influence Luddites turned out to be a pretty fitting followup session for that discussion. One of the biggest issues that surfaced at the IT Directors Affinity Group at NTC on Thursday was that many nonprofit employees are a hard sell when it comes to new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? My takeaways: 1.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This section will discuss the various types of marketing campaigns you may hold to further your fundraising, stewardship, and even advocacy efforts. An articulated reason for why you’re holding the event. So, regardless of the specific call-to-action, you include, it needs to be clearly articulated and eye-catching.

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

In our interview, Dr. Hicken and I prompted Dr. Turco to discuss editorial decisions and specific chapters she felt deserved special call out for the readers of this blog. Mary Turco envisions instructors assigning chapters in a curriculum for training CPD professionals. The design of the book speaks to this. Turco comments: [link].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

This begins with the CEO or president, who needs to articulate what she or he sees as the fundamental importance of dedicating staff time towards these goals. At every level , colleagues in various positions will need to participate in best practices, training, and tracking to make the shift successful. But you can also make it fun!

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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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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

We started by listing everyone’s burning issues, then discussed as many as we could in-depth. What about franchising consultancies, to make a network of ‘train the trainers.’ Discussion: Ideas about telling the story about “what do I do as a consultant?&#. Presenters: Robert L. Eric Leland, Five Paths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Discussions on how to improve results are rarely part of staff meetings. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Achieve

MAY 22, 2016

One was going to work as a systems analyst for Anheuser Busch; one friend was going into a leadership program with SBC Global (now AT&T); and another was going into a manager training program at Enterprise – all prominent St. It has now become a fun game for me to hear them articulate what I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers. The are several answers to this question.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Q: Do you know of any resources for DEAI trainings? Any webinars or groups that can come to your museum to do in-person training? Elizabeth) As far as groups that do in-person trainings, the Alliance is working with deepSEE , Interculturalist , and The Winters Group for trainings. We’d love to share.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. Elizabeth: Yes. I’m Steven.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Be sure to have leadership kick off the session by discussing the importance of philanthropy to the organization. This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work. Then as a group, you will debrief your experience and discuss ideas to improve the experience.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Later on, I’ll discuss additional considerations for COVID, but let’s start with the basics. Consider a brief, pre-event meeting to discuss your expectations with the catering staff and make sure they know how and when to contact you (and security) should the need arise. I saw the sign (and it was very clear about where I should go).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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. The leadership environment is key.

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Place Museum Environment Problem 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups.

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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

You need to be able to clearly articulate the need for automation and new low-code/no-code platforms, identify the expenses involved, and define the returns you and your organization can expect to see. A good place to dive in is our forum discussion: Power Automate—Where Do I Start? Eliminating human error from data entry.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners. Elucidat is an eLearning authoring platform trusted by large organizations for employee training. Localize training for various regional audiences.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Let’s discuss how to break out and determine all of the costs involved. . Download the worksheet here. It’s fun, I promise!).

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Provide ongoing training opportunities and support to help your team members develop their leadership skills overtime. Including training for staff members who will be using the technology.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

By clearly articulating your membership tiers and benefits across multiple marketing channels, you can connect with potential new members who would be a good fit for your program. Cultivate impactful relationships to increase retention. transaction fee. Pricing Pricing starts at $4,500 per year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

His remarks are on the Ventures Foundation blog and can also be found in his book, Grassroots Philanthropy. (Gabriel Kasper from Monitor Institute keynoted the main conference discussing “ What’s Next for Community Philanthropy ” which embodies many of these themes and provides tools for community foundations to tackle them).

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