Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement.

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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. ” The book offers some great reminders about how to make your presentations more interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

tackling critical issues that are shaping the present and future of our country and our rights. I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's one of her training presentations. For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Sean Stannard-Stockton , author of the Tactical Philthanthropy blog, has posted a podcast interview with Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and president CompuMentor and TechSoup where they talk about the NetSquared project and the usefulness of "wisdom of crowd" techniques for nonprofits and philthanthropy. The NpTech Summary.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. Get the design or presentation of prediction solutions wrong and you can impact user trust and adoption. From a dummy donor dataset with no context, no prompt, ChatGPT surprisingly came back with a summary of the data.

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In these meetings present the employees with real-life practice problems or perhaps current departmental issues that best reflect the teachings of the lessons. It can also consist of reinforcement of techniques and procedures. In summary, coaching is a unique value added concept to a learning and development program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook.

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MARCH 31, 2009

And finally, consider low-cost donor cultivation techniques: Your board or top staff should each be able to call 3-4 top recent donors once a month to thank them. m gearing up to co-present on a panel on this topic in May at the Global Health Council?s How much time do your staff and board spend with donors? s annual conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. And, indeed we had journalists present. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

View more presentations from womenwhotech. Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Kevin j points to a pretty amazing movie from the presentation at last week's Net Tuesday. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. Finally, the sharing – is about giving the best nuggets of content to your audience in a presentation format that they can easily digest and apply it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end. This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction. Think Beyond Presenters. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Large: Over 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

One of my key themes for the year is to look at failure and learning – and will also have a chance to dive into a conversation at the upcoming COF Conference with colleague Peter Sims , Author of Little Bets and founder of BLKSHP. His book has a great summary of the research out there on what is failure.

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MARCH 24, 2022

No presenter who just reads bullet points off a PowerPoint instead does it because they want their audience to eagerly contemplate running from the room. Great journalists love this technique—it gets them the best interviews and quotes. In Summary. That way, they’ll be able to prepare their response, objections and questions.

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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. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Does not know where to start.

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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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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences. Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Global Community Affairs for Microsoft kicked off the day with an interactive presentation about the trends in technology. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

DIA blog reports from the Freedom To Connect conclave today, and came back with a bit of darkly indistinct video of the feature presentation by Yochai Benkler. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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JUNE 11, 2021

. – [Lindsay] I’m like I need to present. . So are you ready for me to present my slides? . So here’s the next survey, Steven, right off the bat, just to make sure everybody’s kind of present and getting us grounded. We’re right on time, halfway through the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits. View more presentations from YMCA of Metro Chicago.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Museums spent this decade chasing the future on behalf of the past while ignoring the present. Tag me so I can add your thoughts to this month’s summary post @artlust on twitter, @_art_lust_ on IG, & @brilliantideastudiollc on FB). For me, technology and labor were really two sides of the same coin. link] — Matt Popke ??

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

For brevity let’s decide that it is about technology, techniques and processes for understanding what’s in your data and driving your business practices. An organization driven by analytics requires leaders who leverage the tools, techniques and processes as a flexible, mutable guide for driving efficiency and results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. I am also experimenting with techniques for network weaving across platforms and curating content related to effective practice of networked nonprofits.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! For other donors, you’ll want to present relevant information so they understand your nonprofit’s main mission and the impact they’ll make by supporting your work. Understand the Giver’s Journey. Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

It's easy to buy more stamps and do more direct mail, scary to use a new technique…Please don't tell me it's about a lack of resources. Summary of debate on his take on nonprofits as resistant to change. Very few of them have bothered to show up in a big way. “I am not amused by Seth Godin. ” Via @ cariegrls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. So my new rule is to ask: -Is the music adding to the understanding of the concept/idea being presented? So, for my first experiments here is what I used: Project #1: Music as intro and summary. Technical Skills and Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. Also, we should ask people not to take photos or chat during the presentations as the sound of cameras snapping made the audio hard to hear. I also turned off my audio.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By changing the presentation of Fanta’s story each time they shared it on their website and Facebook profile, PIH made the content feel fresh and engaging each time. This technique grabs readers’ attention by putting them in Dustin’s shoes. The blog post is written in a first-person perspective. Facebook and Instagram.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

In addition to destroying the trees and vegetation there is another big problem with this technique — where does the mountain top end up? Issues of morality are present in many aspects of our lives and not surprising people disagree on what is moral and what is not. It is just what the name implies. Streams are not lost forever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! In an earlier post and presentation, I riffed on Armano's article and translated for a nonprofit context. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I prepared a handout summarizing these points for a presentation I did awhile back, but let's dive in to the details. P.S. There's a bullet point in the summary handout that says “Beware of RFPs.” Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The meeting facilitator can also facilitate these activities by preparing a summary at the meeting. They should be able to see the faces of in-person attendees, shared presentations, physical documents handed out, content created during the meeting on whiteboards or flipcharts, etc. This also saves everyone a lot of time!

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