Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits. AI for Social Good: The McKinsey company recently released its “ AI and Social Good Report ,” which includes a landscape analysis of how AI is currently being used to solve big hairy problems. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

In this interview, Julia shares some of the strategies she teaches her clients, including her secret formula for social media calendars, how nonprofits can improve engagement on their social channels, and the one thing she wishes nonprofits would stop doing online. Being active in more groups. The first area is research. Posting more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Developed to teach Australian and U.K. Reading the Teacher's section and Ben's analysis: It???s s tough to teach interdependencies using linear media like books,??? Activities may include preventing deforestation, scoping out alternative fuel strategies, or convincing a clothing company to sell eco-friendly duds.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. Other groups had smaller, more active lists, thanks to increasingly aggressive inactive suppression and reactivation strategies. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. He asked us to list them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. First, your active mid-level donors, who you want to retain and upgrade. The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. Related Links.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?” And, when you teach them to be more efficient with programming, you’ll save money and create a larger impact! Learning is truly an everlasting endeavor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Does a photo showing people doing an activity do better than people posing together? Here some tips on how to improve Facebook engagement with photos. Games are even more engaging.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

Competing calls to action can result in “ analysis paralysis , ” resulting in no decision. Are there certain in-person activities it makes sense to bring back based on donor feedback? . And if they don’t miss those in-person activities or still don’t feel safe meeting in person, what will you do instead?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

Mangers – through their strengths, their own active engagement and how they effectively work with their teams every day is critical. Two-thirds of managers are either not engaged or actively disengaged in their work and workplace. Clifton is Chairman and CEO of Gallup and bestselling author of Born to Build and The Coming Jobs War.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. Create a fundraising plan to bring in the money you need, mapping out all your fundraising activities for the year. And if you aren’t active, get active!) What need will you address?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. Participants worked in groups to identify the benefits, tangible/intangible value, and financial analysis. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 20, 2016

Statement of activity. The statement of activity serves as the income and expense statement. Along with the statement of activity, this report can assist in the supervision of your organization’s financial future. Kick off a successful start with your nonprofit’s board of directors by teaching them about their role.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2013

From volunteering to local service activities to donations, we saw people everywhere come together to give. Blackbaud is proud to be a founding partner of #GivingTuesday and launched a new web resource, Business Doing Good , which teaches small to mid-sized businesses how to build a give back programs into their companies.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Yesterday, from volunteering to local service activities to donations, we saw people everywhere come together to give. The analysis is based on over 3,800 nonprofit organizations that received at least one online donation on #GivingTuesday 2013. . “When we launched #GivingTuesday, our goal was to celebrate (and stimulate!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. The study was of medical school lectures. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. That’s the theory at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. For the past month-and-a-half, I’ve been working organizing our data collection, storage, analysis, and dissemination efforts. Bob says, “The data should tell us whether or not the program is effective.”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

Mangers – through their strengths, their own active engagement and how they effectively work with their teams every day is critical. Two-thirds of managers are either not engaged or actively disengaged in their work and workplace. Clifton is Chairman and CEO of Gallup and bestselling author of Born to Build and The Coming Jobs War.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. Fitness challenges offer supporters a chance to give while engaging in physical activity. You can hold a new game every week and make this an ongoing social activity at your church! You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Accept tithes online.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

through oral tradition, cultural activities, and culture-specific behaviors), developing a sense of membership within an ethnic group, and (hopefully) developing positive feelings about the self and the group. [5] Ethnic identity and personal wellbeing of people of color: a meta-analysis. How can we make a difference? Ghazarian, S.R.,

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Manually generating reports, exporting them from your LMS, and submitting them to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) is a complicated, precise administrative burden for your team to tackle. Your association needs to report to PARS for all accreditation activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” The outcome for this webinar was: To leave the webinar ready to take one small step towards improving social media measurement practice.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

Linguists teach us that we think in frames that tie words together. Literally, put results first, whether in grant discussions and decisions, program design and analysis, or anything else. There is no end to the detail that can be provided on activity. At the level of words, there is already great congruence.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Responsible for day-to-day operations of the Philanthropy Institute, including budgeting and financial analysis, strategic planning, and talent management .

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Points of Light, the organization that established this program in 1974, says "National Volunteer Week is about taking action and encouraging individuals and their respective communities to be at the center of social change – discovering and actively demonstrating their collective power to make a difference.".

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. Fitness challenges offer supporters a chance to give while engaging in physical activity. You can hold a new game every week and make this an ongoing social activity at your church! You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Accept tithes online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. After we had all the sticky notes on the board, we had generated a landscape analysis from the grantee’s point of view. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. Since then, I've incorporated as Vision2Lead and started teaching online for Capella University. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. It doesn't need to be an all-consuming activity, but you need to decide who will do the heavy listening, who needs the know what has been said, and who is empowered on respond or act on the information. Pattern Analysis .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Sometimes an organization can look to its own programs and mission-related activities for perks. Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session? Social media platforms come and go, but emails belong to you! Program-Related Perks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

The active ones have their act together and filed their required forms long ago. Interesting analysis. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Point is that this is one more Arizona organization that simply isnt around anymore. They are almost always very small. Thank you for your brilliance and your wit. Refreshing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. After the winter has come, the grasshopper finds itself starving and after asking the ant for food is punished for its idleness.

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