Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

It goes beyond just analytics tools to exploring tools, techniques, and data for measuring deep civic engagement, open governance, and inclusive decision-making. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, ChatGPT is easy to learn and use. Jasper AI is great for analyzing decisions and making personalized recommendations and is used primarily for marketing copy such as blog articles. For example, short-form video content is king right now and will likely continue to remain so for the foreseeable future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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JULY 16, 2014

Communication method. These are all examples of ways you can contact your donors. Chances are good, your nonprofit has employed an array of communication techniques. The post 10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects. Brainstorm: Methods for generating new ideas – recombining, adding, subtracting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session with colleagues Danette Peters and Roberto Cremonini on Outcomes, Impact, and Communication where will not only share some case studies and techniques for outcome-based evaluation, but model some small group facilitation techniques for the process. If not, look for wrap up posts on my blog.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Your donor engagement strategy may outline different recognition tiers by gift amount ($50 donations receive a shout-out in your newsletter, and $250 donations receive a plaque, for example).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment. My colleague, blogger Michele Martin has this well-researched deck with many more examples of methods for doing a process evaluation and reflective practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Rheingold’s low-tech technique, a post-it note on your computer monitor, is a simple and elegant way to help train your attention. During the workshop in New Zealand, we discussed different methods for being mindful and what might apply to our practice. Distraction is still a problem and we need to need to find coping methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A few examples of guiding questions; -What worked well? What techniques and methods have you used? But how to create a routine around reflection for yourself and at your nonprofit? What did we do really well that we don’t want to forget the next time we do this? What could be improved? What could we change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 2013. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is filled with stories of people and organizations that have more recently harnessed new power, both well-known examples like the Pope and lesser-known examples too. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. This is where I have learned valuable lessons about content curation, for example, by participating in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books. Techniques. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The morning used the World Cafe technique. I first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. In contrast, the event model records the actions people take, for example clicking or scrolling. Did they watch a video, or read a blog post?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Question: What do you mean when you say that by using your CPR method that people can potentially free up a whole workday of productivity? For example, Slack and Microsoft Teams are both “internal communication tools.”

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MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. This is why gamification in e-Learning is fast emerging as an effective technique to engage learners. Mobile learning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. Beyond that, most of the examples in the book were from world of business. million copies around the world. apply the 80/20 rule. motivate yourself into action.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. And we wanted it to be easy to do – write a blog post! Here’s a copy of the initial email as an example: Subject: Help wish Beth Kanter a happy 53rd! Hi friends-.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. Beyond that, most of the examples in the book were from world of business. million copies around the world. apply the 80/20 rule. motivate yourself into action.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Question: What do you mean when you say that by using your CPR method that people can potentially free up a whole workday of productivity? For example, Slack and Microsoft Teams are both “internal communication tools.”

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

For example: if you know that your average donor gives you ~$70, that some of your donors give $100+, and that a large portion of your donors give at the $25 level, you can make some solid predictions about how your donors will interact with your campaign. Try using these post-donation engagement methods: . Gift range chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. I have read a lot about these methods , but you cannot really under it until you experience it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here’s the method. Remember that when you use the scientific method, your experiment is only as good as your hypothesis. In the example above, you would test posting the same link with the embedded link tool and without it. It offers specific examples of what to test and mini-case studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

According to Idealware’s survey of over 750 nonprofit staffers: Almost 80% "think" that they reach new supporters using Facebook, Twitter, video sharing sites like YouTube, and blogging. Approximately, 40% said that they “think&# that they are raising some money via Facebook and blogging. Other tangible results include:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Many in the audience were colleagues that I have met through my blog over years and have helped me with Cambodian fundraising, like Roger Carr. Her blog is a must-read and I hope someday that she writes a book. Wendy has let me shadow her work for the past five years and share her wisdom in many blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The Pomodoro method and app is one way to avoid the productivity loss of procrastination. They can also automate turning off alerts and other distractions. Freedom and Concentrate (for the MAC) are two examples. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. If you doing training, you have to be a little fearless piloting new techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

People understand the dry sentiment that they are providing to their workforce and are focusing on techniques in which they can improve delivery, effectiveness, and user attention. As the other component of the Super Bowl example, stories can be equally important to furthering the retention of the messages you are attempting to convey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method? The Session Design and Implementation.

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