Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I have a repertoire of icebreakers and always like to discover new ones. I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Training Design'

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

SB] 2 offers programs in technology, engineering, design and entrepreneurship to local youth, and supports local, early-stage companies. [SB] Another option is to embrace the Maker culture, connecting the South Bronx with entrepreneurs who are using local, micro-manufacturing techniques (e.g.,

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

How can researchers design studies that foster reciprocity, i.e., considering an incentive or stipend for participating, invite participants to be an extension of the project team? Though there are many techniques that can be employed to conduct meaningful research remotely, there are still ongoing challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. Some new topics that are beckoning for me are: Effective teaching and learning techniques that can be used for designing and delivering training.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Ian and Sam design real-world games that encourage people to engage in ordinary environments in extraordinary ways.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. There is a chance that an alternative is the correct answer. Get the design or presentation of prediction solutions wrong and you can impact user trust and adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one.

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JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. The best way to ready ourselves for this shifting environment is Continuous Learning. Use this as an opportunity for knowledge transfer.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2013

Yes, the same technique that ultimately brought us things like space shuttles and smartphones can help you increase your online donation rates (no beakers or Bunsen burners required). At this step you will create your alternate donation form experience, but there’s one more step before you make the change live!

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

That experience stuck with me and over the next few weeks I designed a way to take advantage of a similar psychological cue on GlobalGiving. Part 1: The Foot-in-the-Door technique. Analyzing the results, I learned that more people signed up for the mailing lists if they saw the “teaser” first; the Foot-in-the-Door technique worked!

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

The malware technique has actually been around since 1989 , however. This type of protection is designed to catch cyberattacks before they infect your IT system. The alternative of rebuilding infected machines is not great either, but it does discourage cyberblackmailers from coming back. WannaCry Ransomware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It was designed to complement existing technical assistance resources through tip sheets, examples, and links to multiple resources. Alternatively, there may bean emphasis on collecting more data than is necessary, but no one relates it to decision making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

David Havens from Collective Capital , a company that works with business in the area of innovation through improvisation and design thinking. David’s improv exercises were designed to help us stretch this muscle and apply to our social change work. We worked with a partner and had to alternate counting to three.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit consulting services might solve a specific challenge, like customizing and cleaning up your database , or serve as more of a long-term investment, like designing a complete technology plan for your nonprofit. GivingMail – Direct Mail Design. Nonprofit web design and custom projects. Getting Attention – Google Grants.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Alternatively, you could put together a donor appreciation event that focuses more on thanking and recognizing donors and less on fundraising. . Prevent donors from having to enter the same data more than once with good form design !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. Virtual meetings that are not well designed and facilitated can also mean a loss of productivity. 2-Virtual Meeting Design Is More Than Agenda Planning.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Dear Museum 2.0 I expect this to take about 2.5x

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AUGUST 23, 2007

In addition to destroying the trees and vegetation there is another big problem with this technique — where does the mountain top end up? As an Environmental Practioner, I strongly support Alternative III, as outlined in the EIS as the preferable approach. It is just what the name implies.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

Games are happiness engines that are designed to support these four things. Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. This is not an argument that is specific to museums. But the motivation is still external.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 28, 2023

It can be difficult to find new donors when your fundraising technique limits you to your local area. These pain points can impact any fundraiser, whether it’s a school-wide online auction or a charity basketball tournament that’s designed to benefit a single team. Limited pool of donors.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Alternatively, a. While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like. However, there are numerous benefits of using better personalization techniques to combat digital weariness. Then, you can design campaigns and outreach strategies that appeal to each group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged. 2-Virtual Meeting Design Is More Than Agenda Planning. 2-Virtual Meeting Design Is More Than Agenda Planning.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

We tried hard to avoid designing a "kumbaya" weekend, though as it turned out, participants did spontaneously and unironically dance around a bonfire together. I learned more new techniques that I can apply directly to my work. Across the board, C2 provided more value to me than a standard conference.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Fashion Show Hold a fashion show that gives local designers and businesses a change to display their latest styles while creating a theme that ties into your cause. You can also let your designers set up booths to sell the fashions on display and turn the event into a mini-arts fair.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Alternatively, a multichannel marketing strategy allows you to engage with supporters across multiple platforms, using each platform to complement and highlight the others. While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like millennials.

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JUNE 18, 2009

What is the cost of alternatives or not investing? Remember, a good, credible ROI process incorporates story telling techniques that are designed to sell the value of the project to decision-makers. Compare costs of alternatives, cost/benefit, and cost of not doing. What is the value of any expense or staff time savings?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

An in-app feedback channel will help prevent negative user reviews because it gives users an easy alternative to leaving low star ratings out of frustration. Marketing an app requires planning and a range of digital marketing techniques and outlets. Communicate with your nonprofit’s team. Submit suggestions or requests. Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. Jo Johnson over at the London Symphony is a master of this technique. Design your work flow.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

It is also committing to pre-financing, which is like microfinance for the artisan groups, it is long-term relationships, it is really providing technical assistance and design, and getting engaged with that community and participating in the sustainable economic development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

It is important to explore both positives and negatives perceptions and alternatives. Your initial experiments will be designed around trying out the tools and techniques. When you can show examples, facts with numbers attached, and insights, it can spark a productive conversation. Write down your successes.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Light argues that while in business, any new idea that generates revenue can be an innovation, a new idea or technique is only valuable for a non-profit organization if it contributes to that organization's ability to deliver on its public mission. Others are "how" innovators--using unusual techniques to accomplish traditional goals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I wrote thousands of lines of code and designed more databases than I can count. Recently the language difference jumped out at me while advising an emerging nonprofit on tools and techniques for client management software. And I also looked at this with post-implementation eyes. 3 Catherine Carey 04.10.07 at 9:05 am Thought provoking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Attention training is technique from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart. I then set out to practice these techniques, one at time, for a month at time until I had successfully retrained my brain. Your social networking should be done during a designated time, not as constant short dips in and out throughout your day.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. And my favorite, from a designer who was initiated into a secret world of graffiti-ed walls behind elevator doors in his art college in an entirely silent exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. Attention training is technique from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart. Time management techniques alone in a networked world don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. What is more important is managing your energy. Why Working Online Can Be Distracting.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

does Bloomerang designate NCOA for their clients? Use fields provided for alternate names if you can for those nicknames. So if people haven’t given it a number of years or what have you, I’m a fan of, “Let’s try to re-engage them and try to use some techniques around that. I’m not sure. Nope, nope.

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