Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

An app-based scavenger hunt can also facilitate a hybrid event if you have participants who are more comfortable virtually attending. With this method, you can also incorporate text fundraising more easily into your event. Setting goals with some sort of reward for their donors is another way to get people engaged. Haunted Hike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. ” This helped shift the energy and energize.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the internet saturated with different content and experiences, how can you ensure that your own volunteer opportunities reach the right people and inspire them to participate? For online training, the right tools can help facilitate a similar type of engagement. Take your onboarding online. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There’s a method to the campaign committee madness. When people are actively involved in your campaign, more of them will give to your campaign and they will give more generously. And ad hoc committees with meaningful assignments are great ways to get people involved. Why Go to The Trouble of Involving Campaign Volunteers?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

What groups of people tend to be your most invested donors? Use your CRM and fundraising software to compile reports that include data like how users found your donation form, their giving method and amount, and if they engaged with you online or in person. Share stories and testimonials from the people you help!

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

But membership renewal letters are an opportunity to remind people why their support and participation are important and prompt them to continue their involvement. We’ll walk you through the steps of writing a membership renewal letter that people are excited to receive (and one that will ensure their renewal for years to come!).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

We then handed out two sets of cards to each group: one about social technologies, the other about ways to engage individuals and groups online, face to face and through traditional leafleting and other methods. After the problem and the people are addressed, then it’s time to consider the tech tools. Social by Social game cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Critical thinking is the process we use to reflect on, access and judge the assumptions underlying our ideas or other people’s ideas. What would be an alternative?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Types of fundraising software to consider When you think about fundraising software, you probably first think of online donation platforms that allow nonprofits to facilitate online gifts. Crowdfunding involves raising many donations, typically small gifts, from a large group of people. Crowdfunding functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Data collection may occur from time to time, but there is no formal reporting.There are no data systems in place, such as dashboards or simple collection methods. Alternatively, there may bean emphasis on collecting more data than is necessary, but no one relates it to decision making.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

EveryAction has served thousands of customers over the years, which means we’ve supported you in helping millions of people in some shape or form. We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

Some notes: Why social tagging could be useful in a museum context: Museums want audiences to engage with their collections and ideas, but recognize that traditional methods of unidirectional on-line and in-gallery communications have limited access and dialog. A new proof of concept paper was just presented. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Astron Solutions exclusively works with nonprofits and small businesses, so they understand the unique challenges of organizations that want to grow by investing in their own people. GivingMail stands out as a nonprofit consulting firm by offering an affordable and efficient alternative to handling your direct mail needs in-house.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Live auctions are typically what people think of when auctions come to mind. They don’t even have to be in the room at all, which makes this method extra appealing to organizations with far-flung supporters. Mobile bidding is a contemporary alternative to old-school silent auction bid sheets. Hybrid auctions.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Learn More About Neon CRM General Fundraising Strategies A large group of people wearing pink and waving pink flags cheer at an outdoor fundraiser. You can also use direct mail pieces to stand out to young people (that’s right!). Ask Your Volunteers Did you know that 76% of people who volunteer for a nonprofit also donate?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

In focusing on those four systems, we recognize institutionally how critical it is to merge the discussion about these various systems and political education to organizing, and how organizing is one method to initiate change for a more just world. It’s really exciting to be in community with people in this way.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. ” And, you know, we had to prove to people that we were the best at what we did. We welcome your questions.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So it’s for the people, by the people, is kind of the mantra here. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. How do we do it in a way that feels inclusive, that people are heard, and that we can make decisions and not be overwhelmed by the process? How do we do this well?

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Even before the pandemic, the popularity of digital payment methods had been steadily rising. and Humanity Cash , a tech venture focused on alternative digital currencies. Producers were eager to work and people always need food, but the stock market crash meant that capital for wages and investment was scarce. Why Go Digital?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, nearly all nonprofits share many core website design choices to help facilitate common user actions, such as making a donation. People move fast when browsing the internet, and few visitors will give a website more than a few seconds to catch their attention. What are the best practices of nonprofit web design?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Indeed, it should be emphasised that these nascent methods of platform capital may not represent a divergent economic path so much as omens of a coming world in which the primary or secondary role of most work is to feed machine learning systems. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g.,

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Political calls-to-action often come in the form of petitions, one of the most popular methods of digital advocacy. Critics argue that the low-effort, low-commitment, and low-risk can make petitions one of the more ineffective methods of digital advocacy. Make sure to keep people updated on the petition’s goal. That’s awesome!

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