Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first? Develop a clear plan.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

How to Stream and Apply Real-Time Prediction Models on High-Throughput Time-Series Data Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Most of the stream processing libraries are not python friendly while the majority of machine learning and data mining libraries are python based. This design enables the re-reading of old messages.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Nonprofit credit card processing solutions are tools nonprofit organizations use to complete credit and debit card transactions securely and quickly. Leveraging a secure payment solution throughout the donation process strengthens donor trust and allows them to use a convenient payment method. per transaction. per transaction.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? In this article, I’m going to share a strategic marketing process that, when followed, will help you create content your audience will love. Chapter 4: Marketing Process. What Is A Digital Marketing Process?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. It also put us into a different mindset. Technique 2: Affinity Mapping.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

In this case you are looking for the software’s capacity to support different interfaces for different customers, client management tools that flex for different purposes, and reports which can be customized to fit fundamentally different needs. Ask for a copy as part of your vendor review process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. The Process Steps in Detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. In 2020, the pandemic accelerated the digital journey for many organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Many organizations skip reflection processes or only do it after a major event because it does not feel like checking something off your to do list or moving forward.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. Every meeting hosted as part of your capital campaign will look different depending on where you are at in the process, which specific committee is meeting, and what they’re aiming to accomplish. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start.

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Campaign Structure Phase Discussion 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? The questions: What do you hope to learn today? How do let go and allow for emergence?

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I’m still processing, but here are some nuggets that I learned: Source: Leadership for a New Era. Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure. There were 12 topics organized into three different themes. Modeling the Network Mindset. Designing for Serendipity. The design for event was superb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2014

As Charles Jennings suggests there are three different frameworks for doing this at work: Adding, Embedding, and Extracting. He points out that approach has value but, by adding activities is only assisting in the learning process. Others have a preference for directed learning, a formal structured course.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Recommendations for fintech startups navigating the procurement process. The emergence of purpose-built technologies to facilitate regulator oversight has, over the past few years, garnered its own moniker of supervisory technology, or suptech. Suptech technologies facilitate related regulatory supervision and enforcement processes.

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Facilitation Rwanda Sample Analysis 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Last year, I used Chris Brogan’s “ Three Words &# to set some professional/personal goals for the year. The process is simple: Think of how you want to be successful in the coming year. My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Share Social Media Reflection Professional 103

The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Because they have two totally different roles, the business development team and the tech team often don’t understand each other’s hurdles and objectives very well. If you are having problems with your tech and business development team working efficiently, the real problem could be a result of a poorly structured organization.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. While many startups are trying to solve this, we’re doing it differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

” And that as networks evolve and grow, you experiment with different tools and then spread the knowledge of how to use the tools to the rest of the network. I love how she points out that one of the most important behaviors needs for a successful network approach is “learning how to learn.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them. Here’s a simple process based on an exercise that Nancy White designed based on the NetMap Process. Observations.

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Network Nonprofit Map Exercise 127

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ground Rules “It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Today, Claire will be the facilitator.

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Ideas Generation Arts Share 101

sgEngage

JULY 5, 2024

In addition to the financial investment, there are many people, processes, and systems that you need to account for with this decision. Involve your staff by developing a steering committee comprised of different members of the team who interact with your system, including your accounting, technology, and program teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

Social Media 97

Social Media Strategy Communication Media 97

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One of the main ways First AML is different from other digital ID authentication startups (like Jumio , Onfido or ForgeRock , to name a few) is that instead of individual end users, it focuses on complex entities and transactions, which may mean performing due diligence on multiple organizations and people at a time.

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New Zealand Platform United Kingdom Law 95

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. In total, that means WhatsApp would cost a quarter of million dollars and take approximately nine months to build, assuming you already have a large user base to assure quality and facilitate initial momentum. and the redesign of TED.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Working in an institutional setting is far more structured, formal, more face-to-face meetings, slower paced, and less porosity.

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Network Work Social Media Facilitation 84

VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

They go by many different names – volunteer councils, auxiliaries, “friends” groups, and more – but regardless of their varied titles, such groups share a great deal. Having an outside facilitator helps to ensure that all voices are heard and that the process keeps moving forward. Lessons from the Field.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 5, 2024

Depending on the peculiarities of the project, that may mean different models, optimization algorithms, deep learning architectures, engineered features, and so on. At some point in time a specific model might show a leap in performance, and quite quickly we’ll have branched versions of that best model, each slightly different from the next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

Today, Knight Foundation published a new Giving Day Playbook , which breaks down the whole process from Day One of planning to launch and post-campaign analysis. 3: Pick the structure that best fits your capacity and goals. There is no one “right” or ideal structure for a Giving Day. But they don’t have to be.

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Foundation Giving Miami Training 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Crowdsourcing is defined broadly as: The process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions. Simplify the donation process. Inspiring calls to action. Let’s dive in!

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