Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here. What surprises you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Small Group – Making Posters.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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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

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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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. LUMA Institute: March 19-20th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The morning used the World Cafe technique. I later became a member of the GIGI group ( girl geeks of the World Cafe ). Fluency in social media skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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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. In 2012, Howard Rheingold facilitated the production of the “ Peeragogy Handbook ,” a practical how-to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. This was very helpful because traditional translation does not help you read the group or adjust on the spot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact. a hat tip to one of the local area codes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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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. Year in Review.

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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. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). So what to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection.

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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? A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. We worked in small groups by network purpose. The network needs to conduct self-evaluation.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

After all, this is a group of people who already support your work. Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Combine your metrics evaluations with feedback from your major donors themselves. Why Implement It?

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JUNE 23, 2021

When developing a fundraising strategy, your best bet is to concentrate on two areas: your most productive donor groups and high-impact donor recruitment and retention. What groups of people tend to be your most invested donors? Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. If you're going to do something sophisticated, like integrating your grants management system with your grantee community, be sure you have very solid management support, a healthy budget, and a very patient stakeholder group. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. Evaluation. both electronic and print.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: Interested in using technology to make the world a better place To Register: [link] *Allegiance Group, Pursuant, & GivingDNA will be attending Nonprofit Fundraisers Symposium Washington, D.C. The event will also include breakout sessions where you can share data and strategies to evaluate your mid-level program.

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MARCH 3, 2011

These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. Two years later, while I still appreciate the very real operational limitations of most institutions with regard to facilitation, I now believe that it's often essential to success. Why did this happen?

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JULY 5, 2023

To get on the same page, consider using virtual-friendly activities like The Center for Creative Leadership’s 10 Steps for Establishing Team Norms , which outlines a straightforward activity that can be facilitated remotely. Encourage ongoing feedback Many organizations chose to bypass formal performance evaluations during the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. What worked? What didn't?

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