Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. 4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective. ” At the end of the day, I look at it, reflect on what I did – and plan for tomorrow. .”

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database. We adapted. How to get started now.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Thankfully, there are tools in place to help you map out a marketing strategy that fits your organization. The trends that appeared reflect that orgs struggle the most with Research and Analytics. One piece of advice that Rachel Clemens gave was to outsource your research when you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

After Mark Horvath, shared some thoughts based on his experience as a free agent, I asked Craig Newmark, who was in the audience, to offer his advice as a free agent. I suspect I’m not alone.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I've made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, and plan my week or day. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. Reflection: Reflection doesn't have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

This social capital encourages employees to turn to colleagues to get useful assistance or advice about future initiatives. Knowledge mapping: By working closely together, colleagues build an understanding of each person’s particular knowledge and skills. How many of you take the time to do that with your groups?”

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As you start to think about how your organization will tell your story this season we enlisted the advice of Vanessa Chase Lockshin, the creator of The Storytelling Nonprofit , to show us how we can stretch our storytelling muscles and get ready for year end! Here’s a short case study of how Ultra Violet has done this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What's your strategy map? What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. " I put her advice to use a few times already, and it is an important lesson. I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2008

Amy showed me how to create typepad notes and pages and the order for approaching this: Come up with map of meta categories and sub-categories. All of the advice about "getting to the point" is what I hope to put into practice in the coming months. What's your advice about improving your blog design or writing?

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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. It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. There is not a reflection process for analyzing success or failure for future use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some long time favorites: Nancy White is my go to guru on all things facilitation and has been for more than 10 years! Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. Then the group draws the connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I want the blog design to reflect being authentic, and generous in sharing knowledge. The most important part of a redesign process - after you map out the strategic points - is to look at a lot of blogs and identify design elements you like. Have any advice for going through a redesign process? Call to Action. So stay tuned!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

He acknolwedges the challenges for our sector, but provides some good advice and examples. Deborah Elizabeth Finn reflects on her key takeaways from two "Networked Nonprofit" book events and expands on the statement "Everything you feared has already happened" when it comes to nonprofits and the social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Here's one way you might celebrate. Take Breaks.

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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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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Thanks for the advice Lincoln! . Once you are inside, you can enroll in a variety of programs such as Apps, Earth Pro, Maps API for Business, One Today and the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Others that do know, don’t understand how easy it is to get and use a Google AdWords Grant. Using Google AdWords.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When you have clear goals for your event and a detailed map of action steps to work on, you can have a very successful event. Talk to other organizations and ask for their advice on executing a successful event. Step 4: Map out a budget for this event. Fan out and attend as many events as you and your committee can get to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

So, was glad that Stephen Downes provided pointers to a few and some reflections: Good summary of the proceedings from yesterday's Eduserv conference on Second Life. I think I'll watch the 3D space a bit more closely in the future, with an eye to mapping out a strategy, the outlines of which I stated in my talk yesterday.

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Achieve

APRIL 29, 2015

Fundraiser #2: “An engaged donor promotes our work to others, gives regularly, and contributes to making the organization stronger through her advice and counsel.”. But do they reflect reality? Fundraiser #3: “An engaged donor is a donor who reads our information, attends events, and gives something every year.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

This last week I was at NTC 09 in San Francisco leading a session on Mapping Metrics To Strategy. One of my favorite metrics geeks, Jim Sterne , has very advice on " How To Measure Engagement On Twitter." Whatever the tool we're using, the right metrics are those that can help understand engagement and relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

For those who are working on social networks and looking at how to catalyze their crowds on places like Facebook or Twitter - the advice resonated. Madeleine shared a copy of the network health scorecard , a diagnostic tool that networks can use to reflect on how to improve. Do you know what the group's value proposition is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I will explore in more depth the analytics tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

They map out every step that will take them to realize their vision. Make time for the three R's: rest, reflection and recreation. It's important to make space for regular (daily, weekly, monthly) times to reflect, rest and recreate to keep you fueled for the long-term. nonprofit social entrepreneur career advice

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 NonprofitCMS blog focuses on practical advice for needs, wants, and woes of nonprofit son the Internet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland. Establish relationships with other business owners, and with potential suppliers that reflect your ethics and product tastes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. It blew me away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Finally, here's a screencast on strategic blog commenting, although a lot of the advice is mostly for those who already have a blog, much can be learned. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

This part of the measurement process is most the fun because it covers visualization, pattern recognition, and reflection. I wanted to take a deeper dive into resources out there that provide useful tips about how to do this step for folks who were not data scientists or data nerds. I like the chart advice: Avoid 3d-charts at all costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. Workshop/Training Reflections. We had examples from the US and UK – and an interesting discussion bubbled up about the difference in approaches, and how online persona reflect a country’s social norms.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

The number of people who have come to me for spot coaching, so, you know, Steven, I’ve done some one-off, two-off sessions where folks who needed advice or they needed to make a career move. And so their job is a reflection of that. What’s your best advice for managing up? Okay, y’all. So let’s chat.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . Resource mapping, who’s already here? Good advice to always go back to those things, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

Several of the newest social platforms create “interest graphs” a map for navigating to subjects and people of interest. The Interest graph is a superset of the social graph, a people map. in her advice about campaigns, you need to be strategic about what content you’re curating and WHO you’re sharing with.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

If you want to make your story to pop with data, try infographics and maps. The session was packed with smart advice, but some top tips included keeping your video to one message (resist the temptation to fit too much in!), Want to move your images into motion? Try YouTube, Animoto, Vimeo, Vine, or Viddy.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So feel free to share with everyone your recommendations and your advice in the chat, because we all benefit and learn from each other. They may not have a program officer that is able to give strategic advice or provide that kind of conversation. Do you need to map out some other steps in the process? That was great.

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