Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Regularly have meetings to discuss expenditure and overheads. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. They will have good advice about ways to structure your nonprofit finances responsibly. Look for start-up grants at State and Federal levels. . These tips can help: .

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MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. Effective Social Media. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. Want to see more? Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? How can create a back channel or other social media tools that can engage people in the room, but also around the world with an interest in the topic? I also pinged people in my network from different countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This morning I did an interactive session at the Guardian hosted by its new voluntary sector network – a new online space where professionals working in and with the voluntary sector can discuss and debate the issues which affect their professional lives – and get advice and insight from peers and experts. Book Giveaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit where Allison Fine and I will talk about social media experimentation and other themes from the book. You have to be like Thomas Edison in approaching social media and experiment. The design for Social Media Peer Group Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. Stories are social. Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Once the students have discussed the question for a few minutes, Mazur instructs them to answer the question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. As KD Paine, the queen of social media measurement says, yes we can measure social media and here's how. Bridge Conference Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. 5: Don’t interrupt or jump into giving advice. Reflective Listening Techniques. It is used in brainstorming because it speeds up the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Use Learning Theory.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

That’s especially true coming off of a year defined by a global pandemic, social justice movements, and a tense presidential election. Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit. We specifically look for frequent discussion of feeling tired, not meeting deadlines, taking more sick leave, and negativity in our teammates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

There is some interesting discussion threads taking place. What would advice would you give to other organizations just beginning to experiment? How do enthusiasts of tagging talk about tagging less transcendentally and more in terms of "you can use this technique to achieve X, Y, Z?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. The second session used a conferencing software that allowed the whole group to break into small group discussions on the phone line. But in other instances, you need to do a little social engineering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Many of the techniques are now possible and within the next decade, just-in-time learning will likely become a cultural norm in nonprofits and elsewhere. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice.

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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? The lead will call on the other facilitators during the discussion to add their subject matter expertise or co-facilitate. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

That was the call for blog posts. I received a rich selection covering this topic – from changing mindsets, new tool sets, and lots of tips on how to manage your social media, email, and work flow. In a nutshell, the advice is to spend time on the important tasks first and practice good delegation skills.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Here’s my advice for finding the right consultant for your nonprofit. . We strongly recommend this technique because unconscious bias can frequently lead us to give preference to people who might not necessarily be the best match, such as: The person we really want to drink coffee with. The person we already know socially .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

The criticism was that Owyang's advice was not sophisticated enough. He makes this point: The integration of customer service into social media marketing programs is a logical imperative and usually will follow right on the heels of integrating corporate communications. , and by definition not quite ready for social media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Digital technologies are connecting residents in neighborhoods, catalyzing community discussions, changing the way governments and citizens interact, and making government more transparent. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. If you have any suggestions for inclusion please send us a note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. Then, if all works well, I will bring in Robin for a discussion. If not, we’ll roll the video. Either way, you’ll learn a lot!

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” When asked what nonprofit organizations can do to build relationships with media, the panelists provided sage advice. For more advice no this, also consider these newsjacking tips from Media Cause. #3 Sherry questioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. I also got a chance to spend some time with Thomas Taylor , the Alliance's nonprofit technology in-house guru and social media whiz who turned me to twitpic. tags: arts ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? As the discussion was unfolding, Jonny Goldstein was capturing it. Rob Cottingham. You need to engage the whole brain in learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Showcase Panel. ” 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The discussion about the recent changes on Facebook has focused mostly around what it means for individuals, particularly the tension between openness and privacy. Many people are wondering what it means for nonprofit brands using Facebook as one of their marketing channels. This advice still holds true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Technology and Its Emerging Impact on Foundation Communications " is a new report that describes how philanthropy communications professionals are using social media. tools and techniques. There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 Allant of Social Edge said, We???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics. The chapter that caught my curiosity was Chapter 7: Failing Faster - Unleashing the Power of Testing and Experimentation and we discussed it in the video above. With social media and on the web, experiments are fast, cheap, and scalable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

Leadership Technique: Leaders that do walking meetings can accommodate the many requests for their time. One leader has a standing walking meeting on Wednesday and lets staff know that they are welcome to join him to discuss issues. Sadly, we also heard stories of standing desks not being used! Debra Askanase (@askdebra) March 5, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I was most interested in Part 2 (pages 17-21) because I think the advice is applicable to organizations beyond those managing head start programs. Discussions on how to improveresults are rarely part of staff meetings. Data are not linked to organizational resultsor mission-driven goals across programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. Here's a few tidbits I picked up from reading and participating in the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ). As noted by Holly Ross on the NTEN blog, having a conversation in blogs and other social media is a public conversation. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? I need advice!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . Chris offered this advice: " Don't just pick the low hanging fruit in your in box. Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0 He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

He's leading the discussion on Sunday. David kindly pointed me to the online discussion and some tips from Arin Crumley. I had asked him for some suggestions on improving upon my sloppy editing techniques. He shared this advice: In some ways the sloppiness and the intimacy is part of the charm. don't make it too perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

What if you could invite other people from the around the world to have discussions about those images? Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites). Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Amy Gahran's Advice on Using Flickr Photos As Source Material.

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