Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I look for patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Teach them that fundraising isn’t about asking for money; it’s about giving people the opportunity to give back and improve their communities. First things first, you should be able to articulate to your board what role you’d like to see them have in your development plan. Provide Support and Trainings. Build on Your Momentum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

Articulate your goals. . Start by articulating your virtual campaign, in-person and/or hybrid event goals so you can then create your email communications plan to support those goals. Teach people to fundraise more . Then you can determine how your individual email messages will help you get there. . Optimize .

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

We’ve been trained in our society that it’s not polite to talk about money. No one should fall back on “that’s not my job” when it comes to passionately and proactively articulating your vision, mission, and values. talking about purpose and passion), in lieu of a traditional board “training” (i.e., Closing Thoughts.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

Some people want an outcome-oriented training (as opposed to a community co-created summer camp). This new, experimental training is a hands-on deep dive into the MAH’s model. I've learned a lot from attending and teaching workshops this year. This is agonizing for everyone involved.

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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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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training. and Pop Up Podcasts teach library users to operate audio and visual equipment to record, edit, and produce content. Escondido Library's LibraryYOU. User-generated content includes how-tos, interviews, and life stories.

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

To summarize: the editors felt it is important to gather a team of scholars who could articulate the meaningful trends and topics surrounding the training of health professionals. Mary Turco envisions instructors assigning chapters in a curriculum for training CPD professionals. The design of the book speaks to this.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Use current volunteers as a resource. However, some people do.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The principles of Essentialism teaches us to know the difference and use our resources wisely. ” The videos are authentic, not polished corporate training videos which makes the training very accessible. Says Greg, “We had let go of the idea of pristine videos. Greg describes it as “Living a happy life.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. This is most likely so far from the everyday training and professional development needs of most nonprofits. She is also saying that virtual worlds are not for everyone which is definitely true.

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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. Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. DoSomething.Org: A Data-Driven Nonprofit In Action.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Step #3) A – Articulate the goal(s) of a grant An A rticulate goal is the main aim that will result because of your program and will solve your problem statement. Step #4) N – Narrow your objectives Now that you have a goal articulated, you will need specific activities to ensure that the goal is achieved.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to teach our computers to do our work for us. 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. And the best part? You don’t need to know a single programming language.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

And communities that could make use of, expand, extend, and take ownership of these tools, don’t have access to them, for a wide variety of reasons that at some point I should articulate, but have little to do with money directly. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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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. I think that of advocates need to have open source technology stewards behind them to be successful -- there is a need for stewards to guide the choices, training, translators -- to help nonprofits adopt open source software.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Again, it’s so simple, but I was like, “Oh, that’s actually the methodology I teach in fundraising.” Our goals are really easy to articulate.” Now, we have to train the team, we have to train the board how to do this high ROI fundraising. We have to be aware of this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Initially, after conversations with a lot of domestic workers, we realized that the women really wanted to have negotiation training. Through the negotiation training, women began identifying particular problems that they were having in their work. Women would tell all of these incredible stories throughout the negotiation training.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Teaching in an international context. I love designing and delivering trainings on social media and the added challenge of working outside of the US. When teaching in different contexts, especially outside of the US, you need to make some adjustments to your context. It always helps me improve practice. I did a pre-survey.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. And Rose, you had to go remote overnight.

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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. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And so I’m also the creator of an online course called the Marketing Anatomy of a Growing Nonprofit where we bring together all of our knowledge in this space to eight modules to really give you the full training that you need to be successful. I really just literally can’t pass up an opportunity. You know, it’s not cool.

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Results Video Donation Fundraising 84

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Andy also has written a lot of great books, especially one on training your board. It’s staff training, it allows our employees to do their jobs better. I’m all in favor of intellectuals, and reading, and learning, and teaching. Harvey: Somewhere around here. . Steven: Harvey will tell you about that. Next slide.

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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." Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

After years of fundraising in the “trenches,” as well as coaching and training thousands of organizations to raise money from individual donors, Lori L. Jacobwith, will teach you advanced storytelling techniques to easily combine your “money story” with impact stories about real people. Thursday, April 7, 2016 | 1pm-4pm.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Micro content has trained us to prefer our information bite-sized rather than super-sized. What donors can teach us about making more money, Penelope shares 3 key research driven insights around donor-centric fundraising. Being a good communicator involves more than just good articulation; it’s about understanding your audience.

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