Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Can this technique work for an online meeting? Each person shares their drawing and you guess who it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Documentation. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

When I facilitate training, I use analog and digital tools and materials. Speaking of documentation, that’s where digital tools can come in handy – for example your mobile phone camera. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper? I know some colleagues prefer not to use paper , but go all digital.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

In my book, I show you the tools that will boost efficiency in all three of these domains and I provide you with a detailed blueprint for the most effective ways to use them,” explains Sonnenberg. Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. what tools is the team using already? how willing to adopt change?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Data should inform and optimise your fundraising strategy , and attribution is a simple technique you can use to really help you get it right. Whenever you see this juicy URL (in your case, filled with awesome information relating to your charity), the UTMs help your analytics tool identify and group this traffic. Term (utm_term).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

In my book, I show you the tools that will boost efficiency in all three of these domains and I provide you with a detailed blueprint for the most effective ways to use them,” explains Sonnenberg. Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. what tools is the team using already? how willing to adopt change?

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Providing tools for sustainable change to populations most vulnerable to hunger, violence, and disease, CARE has earned its place in the hall of fame of nonprofits continuing to make the world a better place. Cut poverty off at its roots. That’s the message CARE has embraced over the course of its 72-year history. Equality Now.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2013

Another common communication tool that poses maintenance and sometimes service issues. Now we are getting into some newer techniques. Years prior to the cloud and web apps, instant messaging was seen as an informal means of communication, yet it has become a vital tool for instant information, similar to text messaging via SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. You can use the online whiteboard platform Mural for the drawing tools or ask everyone to use paper and pen and hold it up to the camera. Here’s a write of this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We designed a highly interactive workshop based on Jo Wolfe’s “ NGO Digital Maturity Matrix ,” an assessment tool that enables nonprofits to codify mindsets and skill sets required for moving along the path of digital transformation. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Even the word “planning document” might make you stressed. Use these tools to streamline your planning process. Remember this should be a living document – something that you refer to constantly and one that includes key fundraising objectives, detailed plans to execute, and goals. Creating a Fundraising Plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I also use it as a year in review tool. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

There are a few essential tools when auditing a website’s user privacy settings: #1 VPN Clients: You can visit the website from various countries to see if the cookie consent banner is updated to reflect the law of the land. . #3 I used these tools to quickly review an organization’s website in the US and EU.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Here are three broad approaches: Grab a free or cheap tool and get started fast. There are plenty of options ( Google Sites , Ning , and GroupSite , to name a few) that allow you to host discussions and share documents with groups of people relatively easily. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was fun to see NGOs in Tunisia begin to embrace, adapt, and apply the concept. The template itself is geared for the USA, but since Holly has so generously shared it for free in Google document, I suspect it could be easily localized for NGOs in many other places of the world and easily converted to other languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set. Avoid spreading the organization’s resources too thin.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

The tools you choose will depend on your nonprofit’s unique needs! Once you have that part in place, it’s time to find fundraising tools that will help you meet those goals. This means identifying effective and capable tools to help you make strategic moves based on accurate, updated data. . Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A job description is an internal document used to define roles and responsibilities for the employee and senior leadership. A posting is a marketing tool that sells the organization and also describes the role in a broader way. Job descriptions are a valuable tool for hiring managers and employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

My rituals include: 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I also use it as a year in review tool. 3) Start A New Journal: As I mentioned above, I keep an annual professional journal, part planner and part reflection tool.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We never received a “how-to-guide” for collaborating with community members here at the MAH, but over time, we have acquired some basic tools that have shaped our approach. We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. Keep in contact with them.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. Utilizing infographics, charts, and other visual tools can help break down your nonprofit’s achievements and impact into digestible bits. How would you transform your nonprofit annual report?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Rebecca Masisak from TechSoup Global shared a presentation about how their organization has integrated lean start up principles, sharing their “ Canvas ” which is a thinking tool to help you lay out your hypotheses in different business areas and then test them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

Ransomware became famous as a tool of cybercrime in 2013 with the infamous Cryptolocker attacks. The malware technique has actually been around since 1989 , however. Windows Defender is the free antivirus tool on Windows 10. Back Up Your Critical Data and Documents. WannaCry Ransomware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? This mixture leads to rich learning and documentation. Later I quizzed him about the tools. Straight presentation kills all learning.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volunteer profiles are an important volunteer management tool , giving each of your volunteers their own dedicated space where their information can be stored and studied. File support for important documentation. This is where volunteer profiles become a major asset for your scheduling and management system! Personal interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I had been thinking it was an isolated moment of geekily recursive silliness, but today I got a ping from Lucy Hooberman , also from the UK, about a post she wrote that observes that so many people are live blogging conferences that it produces a lot of documentation of the event. Music in video: Wonder Drums by porchcat

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I was lucky enough to talk my host into driving me to Talkeetna so I could document this fabulous story. I use a technique I learned from Jay Dedman called “Moment Capture&# where you get the most enlightening snippet. I usually reserve video capture for a special story or moment that absolutely can’t be told with text.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings. and Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

They have also provided resources for nonprofits to learn how to use tools to get feedback in t he Feedback Commons or the DIY Toolkit , and join GlobalGiving to earn points (which leads to more funding!) by using those tools to become more effective. (Or, Captricity is a tool that extracts data from forms and documents.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Integrate your fundraising and matching gift tools. This type of tool can save you time, money, and many of the technical headaches that would ordinarily get in the way of a successful campaign. Listen for matching gift asks during calls and provide guidance to improve techniques. Follow up with match-eligible donors.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2016

I developed a tool to help me and my clients remain engaged regardless of whether the workday is long and repetitive, or hectic and variable. PDM incorporates the 15-minute technique of tip #1 and a simple journal system of tags for recording current tasks and managing distractions. I call it The Perfect 15-Minute Day Method (PDM).

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