Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’re in the market for a very specific skill set, consider working with a recruiting agency to expand your candidate pool and identify more qualified leads. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. If necessary, conduct another interview for more detailed insights.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’re in the market for a very specific skill set, consider working with a recruiting agency to expand your candidate pool and identify more qualified leads. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. If necessary, conduct another interview for more detailed insights.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Here’s my advice for finding the right consultant for your nonprofit. . This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. How much of the work must happen on site versus remotely?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. Throughout the pandemic, I fielded calls from colleagues asking for advice on a range of issues. 78% would work longer hours for a more empathetic company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think We Should Do Our Work! The OE program works with grantees around the world to build their capacity in these areas. Interviews with 9 other foundations that conduct OE grantmaking (April-May 2012). Guest Post by the Packard Foundation OE Team.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2021

A feasibility study when a third party gathers feedback to evaluate the viability of the fundraising goal and then recommends a path forward. But waiting until a feasibility interview to engage with prospective donors may be missing a critical opportunity to build donor engagement.

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Including volunteer work on your resume is a great way to demonstrate to hiring managers that you’re community-focused, and would be a hard-working employee if hired. But how you present your volunteer work is also a factor in how hiring managers perceive your experiences. Where to put volunteer work on your resume.

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

” One answer to this critical question is: Evaluate the strength of your appeal copy. Our Allegiance copywriters will often interview clients to get to know them better and hone in on the case for giving. How often have you asked yourself, “How can my organization improve its fundraising campaign results?”

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? What does a learning consultant do? Should you hire an eLearning consultant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Ask for help.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Lack of support and mentorship A bit like building a social network, individuals from underserved communities may lack access to supportive mentors who can help guide them and provide advice on how to succeed in their chosen fields. Mentorship is in many ways a mindset, and one which those from BIPOC communities are not regularly exposed to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

While the reports are guides to funders, if you do work as a capacity builder, you will find some useful insights for your practice. Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. Engage grantees in the evaluation design and implementation.

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

Understand the New Environment Back in 2019, when I interviewed Dan for our book “Association 4.0: Make Content Work Harder One piece of content can become a sales funnel. That concept works well for Netflix,” Dan advises. Remember Dan’s advice and multipurpose each production. So why not entertain and educate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. What advice do you have for others? ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

It's when people don't like to share their own work for fear of being called a self-promoter. Chris thinks that people with this disorder should get over it because it means that their colleagues are missing out on them sharing their ideas/work. You'll find these interviews on David's YouTube Channel. My interview is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life. Mixed Reality Event ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The 45 page report is based on an extensive literature search and interviews with Philanthropy professionals who are currently experimenting with Web 2.0 There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 Leverage the great work of others. tools and techniques. Build internal allies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. The Case Study.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 31, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. The Lodestar Center has two -- Anne Byrne is the other Professional-in-Residence who works with me. I’ve done some work with it. Pat Lewis Sr.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2009

Though I think the cloud presents its own set of challenges for our sector, I also think it presents us with some amazing opportunities -- not just to save money on infrastructure and IT support, but to go about our work differently than we have before. . Judi's really smart advice? You've noticed this, I'm sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Humberto Kam, Senior Manager of Online Communications for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, was kind enough sit down for an interview recently. The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program works to transform seafood markets in ways that create incentives for sustainable fishing and fish-farming practices. Tell me about Seafood Watch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge. One piece of advice that I learned from Cliff Atkinson's book was to think about your presentation key points as tweets so people can retweet them. look here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'm working on another screencast (sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce ) about the SalesForce/Google Ad Words Integration. You need to take a reiterative approach - look at the results and evaluate and improve. Otherwise, you'll have so much data and too many choices to make to figure out what works best. Be strategic.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in. When interviewing for any position at your organization, make sure to ask about the applicant's familiarity with social media. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios. Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2023

I keep doing them because they make my work better. Resources My Best Advice for Conducting User Interviews 4. Evaluate them based on: Content (quality, voice and tone, messaging, topics covered) Ease of use Design aesthetic Be sure to note areas where they excel and trends across sites. Don’t problem-solve. Just listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What worked? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. Working with the team at the Meyer Trust - Marie, Amy, Aaron, and everyone was fantastic. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. • Pick one characteristic about yourself that youd like to change and earnestly work on changing it. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Did it work? What was your approach?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

I've posted an edited transcript of my conversation with Rebecca during her interview for the Big Vision Podcast. Our conversation began with Rebecca describing how Nest works. How do you choose the countries that you work in? What's the path that brought you to this work? How did you end up doing this?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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