Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity. Do you have a preferred method? What do you want to learn from working together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

If your blog hasn’t seen much activity in recent months (or if you don’t have complete blogging functionality), add creating content to the top of your to-do list. A clearly-defined structure for your website will help to keep everything organized and make it easy to tidy up in the future. Ensure your site is easy to maintain.

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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 call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. What gave me joy?

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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. 1. In addition, we had the in-country team leader from Morocco, Widad, translate the instructions a third time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective.

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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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Activating our values in 2022. We adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

This includes orientating participants to the agenda, introductions and a check-in or icebreaker, questions or activities used to help people ease people into a meeting or learning situation. . Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Art, artifacts, books, and manuscripts are all documents of human innovation, thinking, and activity. Content strategy reframes a collection by creating an overarching structure that defines how its content is organized, positioned, and made relevant.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. She is an active philanthropist through YFJ Philanthropies as well. By: Yolanda F.

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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. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Training is only valuable if participants apply what they learn.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google undoubtedly grew tired of updating and developing two tools that couldn’t accurately reflect the type of complex user journeys we see today, where people switch between apps, mobile browsers, and desktops frequently. Why is Google making this change? Google believes GA4 better predicts audience needs and provides better data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) So much so, that I'm taking a brief break from packing up boxes for our move across the country next week. I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday.

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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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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. Well, it is simply an exercise to bring users back to the site and increase activity by complaining about it. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. Encourage Learners to share/ be active socially.

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Program Learning Social Learning Environment 61

Bloomerang

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. And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. grist.org does not consider page views the holy grail of success for their social media, but an indicator of success at the bottom level of the engagement model. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference? It comes down to organizational culture.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. Yes and no. I frankly think this is ridiculous.

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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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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We have done this in-person as part of stakeholder discovery and have also done them remotely, with end-users, as a user research activity. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest national gathering of student leaders, administrators, faculty, and nonprofit staff committed to engaging students in service, activism, politics, advocacy, and other socially responsible work. Learn strategies, tools and techniques to enhance your individual leadership style and talents.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this. Yes and no. I frankly think this is ridiculous.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. The visual design of your website should be bold and accurately reflect your organization’s brand or identity. If you actively update your organization’s blog or newsfeed (and you should!), Sharing updates and information on your campaigns or projects.

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Websites Design Site Web 35

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest national gathering of student leaders, administrators, faculty, and nonprofit staff committed to engaging students in service, activism, politics, advocacy, and other socially responsible work. The Learning Conference 2019. May 29 - 30. General / #NN19 / @Netroots_Nation. Research / @ARNOVA.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

These SEO tools provide insights into search queries, allowing you to delve into search intent and understand what people are actively searching for, to uncover popular and relevant keywords aligned with your nonprofit’s mission. Regularly update your content to reflect the latest industry trends and changes.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

We had a very active chat-based discussion during and after the webcast, and the chatlog will be available at the CFM site soon. Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. This is not an argument that is specific to museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. How can we activate the activsts in the real world? (I Outward Facing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. The Madison Nonprofit Day Conference is a one-day conference jammed pack with ~30 workshop sessions, networking, exhibits, lunch, and a variety of activities. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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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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Websites Fundraising Site Create 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. And everyday until….

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