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! But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have done conference calls on my mobile phone while walking. At the end of the day, you reflect five minutes on what you accomplished. This can help you catch yourself when you procrastinate and establish better habits. It also takes some self-awareness of your procrastination methods and being able to set good productive habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. I also invite guests to come into my class via Zoom video conference. In addition, I write a reflection on my lesson on what I felt worked best or how to modify for the next time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Today was a crazy whirlwind of too many conference calls, IMs, emails, and trying to get things done (not as successfully as I'd like.) Well, at least I started off the morning with some vigorous cardio exercise at the gym -- a killer spin class before I logged onto a conference call to talk about the NpTechTag issues with NpTechers today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. It’s my tool of choice for documenting Tweeting at conferences.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. They tended to reflect only the most recently-added actions, not the most relevant.

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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. Conference. (He even brought me some Tim-Tams.). I introduce a couple of basic social network analysis concepts and how they apply to an organization’s friends, fans, and followers on social media sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

If you feel that you might have a hard time not getting defensive or you have time for a more in-depth debrief, you can do a written exercise and ask participants to reflect on what they learned and how they will apply it. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

Yet there is widespread disappointment with how most conferences and workshops are organized and the level of results that they’re able to achieve. In 2012, leaders at the Rockefeller Foundation posed that question to our team at Monitor Institute, kicking off a year and a half of research and analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Last year when I attended the Data for Good Conference there were several hundred nonprofits interested in data in the room and there is a whole online community focusing on little, medium, and big data at Markets for Good. The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

First, I want to focus on a concept I frequently share in my conference presentations as well as my consulting engagements with clients. Practice institutional self-reflection. There are three key components of institutional self-reflection: where have we been, where are we now, and where do we want to be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

In partnership with NTEN, we brought together 50 volunteers to attend the 17NTC conference for dedicated workshops that will prepare them to be nonprofit technology champions. Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

This analysis reveals an insight you can now act on to improve the member experience – consider reaching out to manager-level members to find out why they’re not renewing, or perhaps develop content specifically around their pain points and target them with personalized messaging during renewal period.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences, both large and small, broad and specialized, here in the U.S. WHAT IF Conference. Name (a-z).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The platform war between Facebook and Google + officially launched with a press conference at Facebook announcing the new “awesome&# features including one click skype/Facebook integration for video chat. Analysis here. Ah, an opportunity for reflection! Simon Laustsen. What a day! What a day!

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. That’s because your site is a direct reflection of your brand. Most nonprofits have a set process for data collection and analysis, but where they fall short is data hygiene. But are you paying attention to your site’s design ? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Requires a mind-shift to incorporate reflection at the end of the process. An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a social media strategy over time. ROI Analysis Must Begin With SMART Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

Halley Suitt 's post about how gender differences affect conference environment/culture. Wee Hours ' analysis of gender differences between the visual stream out of flickr for Blogher versus Gnomedex. Words from the three organizers: Elisa 's post on the conference content and a blogher story. Jay Rosen' s notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

Then asked us to do analysis based on: Age. He asked to reflect on our network map. Mapping Your Professional Network Exercise: He asked to think about this question: Who are the people with you have most frequently communicated with in order to get your work done? He asked us to list them. Organization. Hierarchical Position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. The big steps: Preamble: reflection on the role of tech steward. Nancy White does analysis of the orientation of a bird-watching community and gives a brief summary of what each orientation means. Technology for Communities project. monthly topic calls).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences. The conference hashtag #watech4good was used to encourage people both in the room and not in the room to Tweet – and ask questions. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media. Twitter Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

The best work is embraced by a reflective board and staff leaders alike, and is embedded in the organization’s culture and business model. Most nonprofits implore: “Just fund a development director position for us, and it will pay for itself in a year, enabling us not just to survive but to thrive.” In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. NpTech Conference Call Notes. Pointers To Context To All This.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In fact, according to a survey conducted by The Conference Board ESG Center , 94% of major U.S. The trend of more small and mid-sized companies developing CSR strategies reflects the growing recognition of the importance of responsible business practices across industries. Corporations Are Developing Year-Round CSR Strategies.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

And make sure you include a donation landing page that reflects the same theme and reinforces the basic message. Just think of the positive and additional benefits that come from adding video, conference calls, photo albums, slide shows and a host of other techniques easily and inexpensively available. Finally, results analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

It's about field scanning, pattern analysis, and trends. This is already being done through other channels - whether staff is speaking/attending conferences, publishing articles in journals, conversations with grantees or experts in the field, posting white papers and research on the web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. Tim also wrote a reflection and it is enormously helpful. I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. Return on Reflection: This inquiry won't be all number crunching because you really miss the value of a ROI analysis. This is a bonus goal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

When talking and planning recruitment, it’s important to remind board members that the essential idea is to better reflect the community – not to continue to mirror traditional or current board membership. That’s the big mistake being repeated by nonprofit boards even today.

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