Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

” This is the advice that Carolyn Miles of Save the Children offered. Give them a “Tweetutorial”: Most likely, your CEO uses a mobile phone. Give them a “Tweetutorial” of how to use Twitter on their mobile phone and the basic commands. Get Their Attention: “Camp outside their door.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

We surveyed over 700 nonprofits to find out what advice they’d give themselves and others about fundraising in the new normal. Like you, many of your constituents are also working from home, using their personal cell phones and email addresses. What would you do differently? Here’s what they told us: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. It’s a practice funders like to see, because an Advisory Board gives members of the affected community a voice. Start with an email requesting an in-person meeting, video call, or phone call.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day “Digital Strategies&# seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

Find constituent phone numbers. Check and identify constituent phone numbers annually – and cell phone numbers biannually. The time you spend learning best practices or software shortcuts will be paid back exponentially in efficiency in your workdays. Ensure email delivery. Create a balanced portfolio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Since the NTEN Academy is a peer exchange program, I did more than simply chunk content and encourage interaction through polls, the backchannel chat, and people talking on the phone line every 12 minutes. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. Do more than believe: practice. So, here goes.Lynn's advice for leaders: • Do something that you are afraid to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

But informal knowledge is the information we learn when we create that formal knowledge and is not always captured. This idea and practice is further described in a paper and MIT study that asks “ Are You Feeding or Starving Organizational Memory? ”. Wouldn’t those be better first steps toward facilitating effective group learning?

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APRIL 22, 2021

To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. They provide advice and guidance to help elevate your learning business, which your team would then put into action. Let’s get started. What is an eLearning consultant? Course authoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I’m taking ten minutes every morning to practice some visual recording skills like drawing to create my “3 Most Important Things for Today List.” 5.) Managing Email and Other Distractions: I’ve turned off notifications that pop up on my computer screen or send me a text message to my mobile phone.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Phone calls. Let’s begin.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If you are transitioning in a new Event Chair we recommend having your previous Chair document their “Best Practices” as a Hand Off Guide. Soliciting sponsors over the phone or in-person to be a part of your event and assist your mission. Any tips or “Best Practices”? Volunteer Coordinator.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

It's why I felt the need to dive into visual facilitation and thinking techniques as a way to cope with getting "content fried.". I'm taking ten minutes every morning to practice some visual recording skills like drawing to create my "3 Most Important Things for Today List." Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Being online or living a connected lifestyle is something many of us do - and as smart phones, Facebook, ipads, and other technology tools become part of lives, we have to examine our relationship with them and find balance. Chris offered this advice: " Don't just pick the low hanging fruit in your in box. Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. Repeat. Photo by Jim Nickerson.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

They’re available—just a live chat or a phone call away. Early on in the pandemic, we were keeping an eye on our customers and making sure that we were there and providing advice and support. You can create yourself a nice little tech stack! The other thing we hear a lot is that the quality of the support team is great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. 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. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. It's hard for some to wait after 6-12 months of engagement to see dollars.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully. Like the time I was doing a session in an artists loft and the phone jack was 150 feet away and my phone cord was only 125 feet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

He firmly believes that leaders who strive toward balance can more readily identify and curtail organizational entropy, facilitate a culture of trust, and foster diverse organizations and cultures that inspire everyone to bring their “whole sell” to work. What is your best advice for sharing bad news in the workplace?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

He firmly believes that leaders who strive toward balance can more readily identify and curtail organizational entropy, facilitate a culture of trust, and foster diverse organizations and cultures that inspire everyone to bring their “whole sell” to work. What is your best advice for sharing bad news in the workplace?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Last month, student Nicole Robert wrote about the concept for Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it. Below are three things I learned from the Advice exhibit and will take with me into future work. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Solution: As a nonprofit, AnnieCannons relies on fundraising to support its programs — though the organization aims to be self-sustaining one day — and uses the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) as the cornerstone of client management practices for donors and grants. It’s a game changer because no such data set exists in Asia.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 21, 2013

Make a quick phone call to thank them - yes, I said it. Sometimes you actually should pick up the phone instead of emailing, e-blasting or Tweeting! Asking for their advice and input through focus groups and short on-line surveys tells them that you care about what they think. And there''s always the wonderful hand-written note.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He just retired out of private practice about five years ago. And so as a young plastic surgeon, he gathered five other plastic surgeons and said that we were going to spend a week in the Philippines and help as many kids as possible and then head back to their private practice. Bill is a retired plastic surgeon. That’s crazy.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

What are the best practices of nonprofit website design? As you read through these best practices, consider how you can apply them to your own website. While some advice might require help from a professional web developer, many of the tips in this guide can be applied yourself. What does nonprofit website design encompass?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Pro tip: Facilitate donations by making your “Donate” button easy to find! There’s a ton of advice out there about designing your nonprofit’s website effectively. Use your text messaging tool to send texts to attendees letting them know they can give right from their phones.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2012

If this doesn’t work, consider bringing in an outside person like a facilitator or consultant. You may not want them involved in all the details, but find ways to ask for their opinion, advice, and feedback. But if you have lapsed donors, sometimes you can renew them with a 1-2 punch of a letter followed up by a phone call.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2012

If this doesn’t work, consider bringing in an outside person like a facilitator or consultant. You may not want them involved in all the details, but find ways to ask for their opinion, advice, and feedback. But if you have lapsed donors, sometimes you can renew them with a 1-2 punch of a letter followed up by a phone call.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

Check out CODEPINK’s favorite pink blogs (and advice for how to start your own). As local groups coordinator, I connect CODEPINK's national campaigns with the grassroots women's movement for peace, and brings organizing resources to local coordinators. My CODEPINK blog. by characteristics (gender, age, country, weather) for emotions.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’ll also share advocacy and political calls-to-action examples and best practices to help your org motivate activists and supporters towards real change. The benefits of these types of asks when they exist as call-to-action items are multiple: They follow all the petition best practices out-of-the-box. That’s awesome!

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