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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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 5, 2014

This is one of my favorite books about instructional design, especially if you are designing professional development activities for nonprofit staff or other trainers. This is a very practical staff development model — and can be applied to brown bags sessions to longer, more in-depth professional learning experiences.

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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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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. Take the time to evaluate this list and see if any of it could be applicable to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. 2019 Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Offer Training in Conflict Management To Social Media Professionals: The book describes techniques for conflict management and how to respond in various situations, but organizing a training for staff that includes role play and simulations to practice these skills is also important.

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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. My Three Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curators have integrated this skill into their daily routine. For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning. Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. Why is Content Curation Valuable? It is like sipping fine wine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This is evaluation. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. Implementation.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Evaluation of sales processes, and salesforce structure. Performance Metrics Analyses. Operations.

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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. It was great to have a co-trainer who knew the subject matter, fluent in English, and who understood group facilitation skills and training approaches. I do not speak Spanish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

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. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. weekly, biweekly,monthly, or quarterly) check-ins to evaluate what is working and what is not.The organization provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools.

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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 ). There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn the techniques of simplify and apply to your social media use.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

BJ: Most games I have designed through museums have been in partnership - with professional game designers, with high school students, with scientists (and other content experts), and with digital developers (that AR component of the pterosaurs card game was amazing). (So What are some of the skills that you think help folks design games?

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn the techniques of simplify and apply to your social media use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data.

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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. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: A PBD fundraiser or public media professional looking for the inside scoop To Register: [link] FFE Summit Cabo San Lucas January 22-25, 2024 Hosted by the Foundation for Fraternal Excellence, Summit gives foundation executives, board members, and alliance partners an opportunity to spend time with each other.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. The leadership environment Leaders (whether on a team, in a department or institution-wide) have to be open to taking risks, trying new things, evaluating and learning from failures. Or the tables?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated? How can I help?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. One last thought on evaluation. From a museum perspective, I'm more interested in evaluations of the audience experience of participation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. Leary (NRG!

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good. Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum / Orlando, FL / $945. Annual Conference for Media Relations Professionals. Agents of Change Summit. Fundraising.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017! State/Local.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

They’re a great way to learn new techniques, brush up on industry knowledge, and learn about up-and-coming trends—all of which are important as you hone your fundraising skills. If you attend a workshop, you won’t just listen to a speaker; you’ll work alongside other nonprofit professionals to create something unique.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010 The Five Points Of Professionalism Heres more good advice from The Everything Coaching And Mentoring Book : Professional behavior on the job means that work habits are strong and consistent. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe.

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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. Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. And, the eBook is free!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. Posted by Eric Jacobson at 8:01 PM Labels: Leadership Books , Leadership Skills , Management , Motivating Employees 1 comments: davidburkus said.

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