Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Although I don’t have all the answers, I can share what has worked in my experience. With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Potential criteria include but are not limited to: Skills, credentials, and professional experience. Years of relevant experience in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Call this “social change 2.0”. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change. In this model, there are four different levels of social media practice: Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? How have you used social media to personalize your interactions with potential supporters? Does it work?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Whether you’re planning holiday events or social media campaigns, incorporating texts into your promotion strategy can have a big impact on your success. Beyond donors, you can also ask your volunteers, social media followers, and those who sign up for your email list. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.).

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It can also evaluate your campaigns and programs to find the most successful strategies for you to use to fundraise more efficiently. Using generative AI can help you create tailored emails, social media prompts, donation appeals, and more. This helps improve your volunteers’ experience and maximize the impact of their contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. I admit that I mostly read non-fiction, but if I only read social media or geeky books that would be too narrow. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation. Photo By h.koppdelaney.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. This is a very practical staff development model — and can be applied to brown bags sessions to longer, more in-depth professional learning experiences. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially. Essentially, it’s the personality of the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Recently, Robin highlighted an article by Jarche titled, “ Ask What Value You Can Add ” on Social Media Today. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Answer the question yourself: Answer the question raised in the article from your own experience.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

By Andrea Berry, Idealware Social media has provided nonprofits with a whole new toolbox for marketing themselves and engaging constituents. Now apply that to social media. Social media remains largely uncharted territory. First Step: Setting Goals Is social media working for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

People and organizations that work on social change are not immune. Adding Conflict Resolution Points To Your Social Media Policy: This includes creating a flow chart for dealing with an online conflict situation. The points include: 1) notice the situation; 2) evaluate the situation; 3) Respond to the situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. Not unlike where you start for a communications or social media strategy, eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Click to see the larger image. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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Gyrus

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. Creative content is required to enable new and refreshed learning experience to employees. Mobile learning.

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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

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

JANUARY 5, 2009

I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. My three words: streamline, weave, and Einstein. Good for you!

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

At the end of the day, it is the experience of ourselves and our colleagues that make the difference between industry acceptance and being just another small fish in the industry pond. In the ever-changing climate of business, it is vital that organizational members are able to adapt to their surroundings.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. I wanted to know more. That didn''t happen.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The idea more is to see what is working for others to see if it is something that can be replicated without appearing you are simply copying their techniques. There should be links to the form on all social media platforms as well as blog posts. Everyone is working towards a noble cause. Are they interested in lending a hand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig.

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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 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. I started with an introduction to the Networked Nonprofit and an assessment that allows them evaluate where their use of networks and social media is along a continuum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Experiment. Develop Your Eye: The more you shoot and evaluate your work, the better your eye will become. I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results. A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics. He explains why experimentation is critical for success in using the web, particularly social media. Avinash feels that in a world of finite resources, it is very important to experiment and fail fast. Learning means implementation - even if you fail.

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