Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

Some of the biggest reporting challenges for nonprofits, associations, and foundations include: Where to get the data: Some data is found easily in data dashboards, some is not. The goal with your analysis is to have actionable data. Clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are crucial for meaningful analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Role Playing Simulation For Making ROI Argument: Many nonprofits are often faced with the question, “What the value of social media&# from senior management. Participants worked in groups to identify the benefits, tangible/intangible value, and financial analysis.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Nonprofits can help by: . My Recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Technology Changes, People Don’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By recognizing and learning from the marketing mistakes that hold nonprofits back , you’ll have everything you need to drive success. . It’s about strategically planning how you’re going to get your nonprofit in front of the people who will best connect with your mission. . Producing irrelevant content. Neglecting site design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. The Playbook gives you an examples. Meaning Making.

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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 always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. She also traced the history of nonprofit capacity building field and how the unit of analysis needs to change – from that of organizations to networks.

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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. One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. Connecting With Colleagues. Conversational Key Note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Jacob Harold, “ Nonprofits Master “Medium Data” Before Tackling Big Data.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Dan observes, “Overall, the response was positive that such analysis allows the team to be more intentional about weaving a national network for a specific campaign/advocacy outcome.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. All in all lots of good measurement for nonprofit learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

The Networked Nonprofit wasn’t only about making smart use of social media and metrics. 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. How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook. By Noah Rimland Flower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. As a nonprofit, it’s your most valuable asset. After completing the analysis, present your findings to your board committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. The document includes examples from different industries, including nonprofit organizations and for advocacy campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I’m always on the look out for useful and thought provoking resources on how nonprofits can use data to make better decisions that lead to greater impact. 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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

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? I believe that at any given point you should maintain a running analysis of fundraising metrics for a minimum of three, but ideally five consecutive years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Many funders are interested in using peer learning to help nonprofit leaders advance their capabilities. We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.

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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? The report out was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization. Research and policy analysis. As the report points out, movement organizers are grappling with big questions. Civic engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Twitter reflections and insights have been the air. There are lots of different applications and tools that you can you to facilitate your listening style, although as Jeremiah Owyang notes true useful business tools haven???t Marshall points over an analysis by Jeremiah Owyang and Monkchips. t really emerged, but it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. This is a new way of thinking for a lot of nonprofits (not all), so the checklist is a useful way to bring the concept to life. They also look at qualitative data, including doing a content analysis of their member feedback.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Identify larger, big-picture issues that are reflected within routine reports. For example, you could take the standard strategic planning issues focusing on organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis). He says, “This allows ample time for in-depth analysis of that topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. Insight Harvesting: What are the topics? What do you do to facilitate it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Share Learning: To share learning, you have to intentionally hit the pause button and reflect. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. In healthcare, terms are used like blamefree environment, failure analysis, and responsible reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Information Coping Skills and Social Media Productivity Skills This is more personal use, but if you are a nonprofit professional tasked with social media strategy you will need skills in these areas.

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