Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. The Facilitator’s Guide To Human-Centered Design for Social Impact. I admit it.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. We’ll also help you assess your brand voice and create a style guide that keeps things consistent while allowing creativity across all your communication channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore six smart strategies to drive major giving success for large nonprofits: Enlist prospect research to identify major donor prospects. Effective major gift fundraising focuses on cultivating relationships with that 20% of donors, and we’re here to help guide your efforts to maximal success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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 use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. 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

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, California and at SXSW.

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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. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits. I use weekly reviews and look-ahead rituals as well as the 18-Minutes A Day Reflection Technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

I recently taught several leadership development workshops at the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership based on my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. One of the workshops was focused on technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace , more specifically how to avoid collaboration overload.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. The first was a free general admission ticket that included access to all live keynotes, sessions, workshops, and networking events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. This approach means the instructor takes a “guide on the side&# approach versus “expert on the stage.&# And, of course, it takes more preparation time than slapping together a powerpoint.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

While at University of Phoenix, I specialized in the development of faculty workshops for our online faculty members. Many of the workshops and courses I created for our faculty members had nothing to do with how to perform his/her role as an instructor at University of Phoenix. The Nonprofit Management Institute is for you!

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JULY 28, 2011

Highlight the potential risks of Cloud computing, as well as some risk-management techniques. One of the greatest tools at our disposal to accomplish this is the Cloud. Help you assess the costs of migrating to a Cloud computing solution, including how to do an apple-to-apples comparison with your existing systems.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

It is a great technique to keep up with your field. I’ve been teaching content curation workshops this year and will teach it in the Middle East at the E-Mediat conference in March, 2012 (more about that in a later post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. Now, I want to refine those in more workshops and peer group learning opportunities. This is similar to the pomodoro technique. He suggests setting year-long goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. I want the training to be transformative and that happens by being a guide on the side, not the sage on the stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. Because I am developing some material for upcoming training workshops this month and next, I’ve been on the prowl for useful and practice resources for content marketing. So, I’m always on the hunt for good ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Many of the techniques are now possible and within the next decade, just-in-time learning will likely become a cultural norm in nonprofits and elsewhere. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. Increase Knowledge Capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Creative use of technology and facilitation techniques, however, can maximize the opportunities for interactivity even in larger groups. You need to use all the techniques for a medium webinar, but with more deliberative audience polls sprinkled through the session that helps focuses attention on the key content ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento. I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good by Nedra Kline Weinreich. I love the checklists, her thoughts about the impact of social media and behavior change, and the DIY market research techniques. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Or as Inga Broerman, Guide Star VP of Marketing said, “You won’t know what to say no to.&#. The organization integrates simple measurement techniques and learning as an organizational habit that helps improve practice and documents results from the beginning of every networked approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

ACCP: The Conference features General Sessions, Learning Labs, Workshops, and The Masters’ Series. Learn strategies, tools and techniques to enhance your individual leadership style and talents. Associations. ACCP: The Conference. ACCP: The Conference. Mar 18 - 21. ACCP / Portland, OR / TBD. Be prepared to be inspired! Mar 21 - 23.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. You’ll want to read both the executive summary and the full report – not only do they contain a wealth of insights about network effectiveness, but also use data visualization techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). This online workshop is ambitious - it runs over five weeks and includes virtual field trip and an experimental lab where people will get practical experience with the new web tools and how to integrate them into an existing community of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. This online mentoring will complement face-to-face workshops to be held in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Something tells me this is not the business visioning workshop I anticipated. Last week, I attended a workshop on Creating a Vision of Greatness at ZingTrain , the training arm of Zingerman's Deli, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Use the "hot pen" or automatic writing technique. The goal here is to write down as many as possible.

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