Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. In Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” offers several simple principles to incorporate based on brain science, including: Movement is better than sitting. Here’s some examples.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

Note: We combined our summaries for the SXSW bonanza because, Texas. Scheduled one week after the Midterm elections, we will amplify the learnings and reflections from the previous Upswell events, tackle what the political landscape means for our communities, and look ahead to 2023.” Where : Austin, TX & Online (Hybrid).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Doing this work defensibly involves arcane techniques like applying probabilistic equivalence techniques to insure that groups being measured are equivalent. Only 45 percent of respondents said they knew how well their programs were working, and only about 42 percent felt that their evaluations accurately reflected their impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Here's a few reflections from people in the room. And, finally I attended a session with in-world documentary filmmakers who screened some of their works, and discussed filmmaking techniques, another fascinating moderated chat sesson. In summary, I feel strongly that there is a lot of potential here and worth exploring.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. In order to get the most out of social learning, your employees must feel free to share professional stories and posts that directly reflect on their work and their industry segment. In summary, avoid becoming social just for the sake of the new features.

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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. Does not have a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

The Packard Foundation has recently published a report commissioned from the Monitor Group called “ Ideas Into Action: Reflecting on Three Years of Building Network Effectiveness.” More and more in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector are learning that being fearless is still a critical skill that needs further development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Some reflections about the newest web2.0 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. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community.

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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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JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Your website needs to reflect your nonprofit in an intuitive way, and it should be easily updated to support future campaigns and fundraising efforts. . Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand. Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream.

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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, for my first experiments here is what I used: Project #1: Music as intro and summary. Reflection: MovieMaker is limited or perhaps it is my technical skill. -Add I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Mindmap by Jane Genovese - Click for Larger Version.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 Recently the language difference jumped out at me while advising an emerging nonprofit on tools and techniques for client management software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results? Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. The most straightforward performance metric is the dollar amount raised.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records audio, transcribes spoken words into text, captures slides, and generates summaries – all in real-time. Using statistics and modeling techniques, predictive analytics helps predict future outcomes. Here are some AI-powered tools to get you started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted. Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Mindfulness and Reflection – How to use these techniques to help keep your focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. We reflected on the applications to leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

I discovered that it was Larry Eason from DotOrgPower and his colleague, Shelley Wenk, offered to write this summary of the discussion as a guest post. Here’s a summary of the discussion. These techniques could be used to. Are You Being Left Behind as Technology Ushers In a Whole New Approach to Philanthropy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

But I'm a member of the Social Media Advisory Board for SmartBrief, Inc , a terrific daily summary of social media insights and they asked me to do a roundup post for this week. In May, 2009, Peter Dietz, founder of Social Actions , reflected on the future of online fundraising and wrote about a shift in donor expectations.

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