Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy.

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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. Both shared tips and practice advice. Quiet Reflection: Socoot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

As your website grows and evolves, make sure your navigation bar still accurately reflects its structure. Looking for even more advice on nonprofit digital fundraising and engagement? The last thing you’d want is for a visitor to click on a link in your navigation bar and receive a “404 page not found” error.

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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. The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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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. Documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. 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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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. 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. We adapted.

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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? And, I discovered that there is a Fortress Nonprofit on Twitter providing great advice about organizational change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. 5: Don’t interrupt or jump into giving advice. Reflective Listening Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this. Showing Results: This method is for those have been applying listening techniques and want to track results. It comes down to do a little bit everyday and treating people like people. Listening in Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. 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.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. Have any techniques to add to this list?

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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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Spend time with them. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Spend time with them. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. " My Web2.0

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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

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. 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. Take Breaks.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Below are the issues portrayed and mitigation techniques: Difficult to Formulate Content: In less user-friendly systems it is important to design content with the implementation in mind. But I digress, this post will explore manners in which people in these sorts of environments could make their lives a little easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Chris Brogan and David Eckoff gave a killer session about setting priorities and time management techniques. I got some good feedback and will post some reflections in a bit. I bumped into Millie Garfield who shared some reflections about her "virtual" blogging friends. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? I depend on this person regularly for important advice and have worked with them on more than one project. What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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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 worked? What didn't? What lies beneath this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run. Lisa Bunker (@mutabilis) March 10, 2013. Movement helps wake them up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2008

One of the best pieces of advice about how to learn good techniques for using social media comes from Chris Brogan. He wrote a post called " A Day Without Twitter " which is an excellent reflective process to figure out what value a tool or technique is doing for you. Photo by Jeff Pulver. a day without???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. Making and Caring for My Soul from Marlowe Miller, Professor of English and Associate, UML Center for Women and Work shares the power of being creative as a stress reduction technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

Now, there is extensive literature on effective networking techniques that are tested and true (I implore you to Google “effective networking”; it’s exhausting). I cannot tell you how valuable it has been to ask questions and get advice from experts who have been through and seen it all. Like this article? Get another!

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APRIL 27, 2021

Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit. Q: WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO NONPROFITS TO PREVENT BURNOUT FROM SPREADING? You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques. How do you recognize burnt-out employees and what happens if you ignore burnout? A: Definitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. The place to look for lots of ideas and advice is MobileActive. How does she feel about text to give?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

It will also include some practical advice about working more like clouds than towers. And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. . But, Allison made up a new term, "micro-planning."

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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? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Do you have advice for an organization using Flickr as a campaign platform?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

While the advice in the book is geared for tests to improve a web site, these are translatable to social media experiments. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) Tags: experimentation googleanalytics reflection sandbox socialmediametrics. That's just about when I discovered.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Spend time with them. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I shared examples of question frameworks designed for specific types of visitor experiences: personal framing of exhibits (as in Facing Mars), private sharing (like the Storycorps booths), public dialogue (as in the Advice exhibit), and so on. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research. Leary (NRG!

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