Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Training and education are essential drivers and serve an important function for improving employee performance, satisfaction and yes, even increasing staff retention. While some trainings are informative and deeply enriching, others are…well, just down right boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun. So, this required a bit of pre-planning. Even if you have a short amount of time to teach (and set up), you can make your trainings (and meetings) interactive. How do you make your trainings or meeting more fun that can lead to more learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2013

Focus on the 3 R’s (Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition). While there are fantastic platforms for nonprofits to recruit volunteers, they have make the experience an engaging one for this generation in order to transform them into champions and supporters. The book offers some advice: Provide experiences based on skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In fact, research shows that pro bono and skills-based volunteerism help companies enhance their recruitment and retention rates and improve employee morale, productivity, and loyalty. Although corporations juggle their commitment to shareholders and a worldwide base of customers, there is also tremendous value in offering volunteer services.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

She knows self-care is important to avoiding burn out and keeping a high staff retention. “. Says Erika, “My executive director already felt the need for us to have a written policy in place, so she was excited when I told her I got a bunch of ideas from the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Learning Pyramid or the Cone of Learning are well-known frameworks to trainers and while not based on research , anyone who has had to design and lead training or answer students questions – knows that the best form of learning retention is teaching others. If you combine that with a discussion group and practice by doing – learning (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If we do a better job treating our donors like real partners – it is not only the right thing to do, it will also lead to better donor retention and greater increases to their support. How do you think your solicitation would look a year later if you reinforced the connection throughout the year?

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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. Body Breaks: The book suggests incorporating some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

you'd be surprised how this improves retention. Michael's suggestion for Web2.0 Nonprofit adoption is a stealth adoption approach: What has worked well is to start off with some PC 101 skills that simply speed up the inevitably slow laggard-laptops/desktops ??? and then gently moving over into Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Retention - email and other things to get them to return. The class is about: How to build engaging web applications and apply user engagement metrics to figure out what makes the right set of features and right set of marketing and promotional channels to use. Activation. Revenue/Monetization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I truly believe that the more engaged the audience the better learning and the better retention. Laura Lee Dooley captured this blog post about the session , plus you can find my slides all the links and other resources here. Click to see full size image. You need to engage the whole brain in learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Also, explicitly show your audience specific technology your organization is utilizing, and what information is being stored in each system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

The session about " Driving Fanatic User Engagement and Addictive Retention " was a fascinating overview of game apps on Facebook - the communities, metrics, and how they drive engagement. . | View | Upload your own. Chris Messina's presentation. Take some time to flip through it and think about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Studies show that color usuage can increase interest and improve learning comprehension and retention." Spoken as a true artist he writes, "The right color can help persuade and motivate. His tips off a quick lesson in color theory and some pointers to other resources, including an article on how to tweak the color schemes in Powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

He notes that they have a 80% retention rate with members and "you can't do that without listening." Green Media Toolshed ; Founder Marty Kearns says that listening is something that is done on an individual staff level, but for it to become an organizational process leaders need to build a culture of listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2008

2 - to create communities that extend their capabilities and engage their constituents in richer ways that results in higher retention, lower risk, increased ROI, and faster operational capacity. This is much easier both to understand and implement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki. For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Varying the delivery improves retention. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. With small groups, you, as the instructor, have to give away some control and see what happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

He notes that they have a 80% retention rate with members and "you can't do that without listening." (Story is here ) GreenMedia Toolshed founder Marty Kearns says that listening is something that is done on an individual staff level, but for it to become an organizational process leaders need to build a culture of listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2012

Online engagement improves the retention of traditional offline direct response donors. Dual Channel donors made higher average gift amounts than Offline Only donors, while Online Only donors made more frequent gifts than Offline Only donors. Additional findings from the study include.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

The statistic of 28% are repeat donors or 72% are new donors – points to the need for nonprofits to not only use social channels and crowd funding platforms to attract new donors, but more attention needs to be give to engagement and retention. Frank Barry did a panel at AFP just on this topic – here’s some tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I believe it has also helped with increased reader numbers and possibly reader retention. This is not foolish consistency. My reason for daily blogging was it would improve the quality of my thinking and writing. Avinash Kaushik agrees. So, calculating this number help me see if I've kept this promise with myself.

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