Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

With that in mind, ask yourself these questions: Do you have board members who are giving consistently? . With that in mind, use storytelling techniques to draw them in, show them how they can be part of the solution, and ask them to donate. . Are you able to articulate the impact their gift will have on your mission.

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Gift Teach Fundraising Donor 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

There were lots of big unresolved questions. In the end, we signed a contract that answered all the big questions about how to manage the project. But the answers hewed to the priorities articulated through these two exercises. What techniques have you used to set priorities for a big, complicated negotiation?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

It should be easy to understand and you need to be able to articulate it clearly. It’s not meant to tell everything, but just enough that they start asking questions and want to know more. Good stories show a dramatic difference in the ‘before’ and ‘after,’ and move people to ask questions, make a donation, or get involved.

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Tools Fundraising Websites Raise 116

Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Do they articulate an understanding of and/or demonstrate affinity for your mission and vision? We strongly recommend this technique because unconscious bias can frequently lead us to give preference to people who might not necessarily be the best match, such as: The person we really want to drink coffee with. Interview questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

These are key questions of our times. The books answers many questions that are useful to nonprofits in their quest to spread and harness social good. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

But as much as fundraising is a calling, it’s also a career that requires business development, sales, client retention, and articulable value propositions. Demonstrate (and articulate!) Learn more about donor stewardship in the article: 3 Stewardship Techniques to Scale Your Fundraising Efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. What questions did you ask? What prep did you do? What was easy about defining success?

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Measure Social Media Media Social 96

Forj

APRIL 24, 2018

As consultants and providers of learning technology to organizations that do CME (continuing medical education) and GME (graduate medical education), we’re often faced with this question: why is it so hard to get physicians to pay attention to (a given client’s) learning? Physicians are, of course, graduates of medical school. or 2x speed.

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San Antonio Tips Technique Articulate 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What you want to do is copy and paste the specific questions into a Word document and respond thoroughly to each question. Note: Steps #2 – #6 are all very common questions asked in any FOA/RFP/NOFA. You can see that this is your time to be very detailed because it answers that ‘achievability’ question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

So, when we talk about social media and being open and embracing the conversation, one of the most comment questions that comes up is: To what extent do you need to moderate the discussion in a socnet space or blog so it isn't antithetical to your mission? The are several answers to this question. by Ken Fischer.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Below are a few techniques and processes that your team can use to help your organization practice cross departmental collaboration and learn how to begin to work towards building a culture of philanthropy throughout your organization. One useful technique is called “walk-a-mile-immersion.”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. Based on a lot of experimentation (and a lot of failures), a whole lot of conversations and some amazing questions from people, here are some things that seem to contribute to getting creativity introduced and to having it stick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. Now that I know how to incorporate this technique into the editing, I need to keep this in the back of mind when in the field shooting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

He asked great questions and a great "FM radio ," not to mention a good sense of humor. Since I dabbled a bit in podcasting before I plunged into vlogging, I got to pick his brains on his techniques, process, and tools. After the interview, he divides each question into a different track and then edits in audacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. There is a regular report to senior leadership which details high level successes, challenges, and recommendations for moving forward. Making sure each department can access its data to answer their questions.&#.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Getting Started With Your Nonprofit Business Plan The most common question we get about business plans is “where do we start?” A good plan answers a number of who, what, when, where questions like these: What problem is your nonprofit trying to solve? It can be a little overwhelming, especially if you’re not naturally a planner.

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Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. Might I dare suggest that future spectrograms include a question about gender balance in OS? The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities.

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Generation Open Source Reflection Facilitation 50

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

You answered a question by writing this book, so what's the next question that you want to answer? Then the big question is, how do people share in that risk of our food production? which, I think, is such an important question that's not really discussed or talked about. What's next on the trail? Back to the models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). Design thinking methods are great way to identify and articulate some of those first step ideas.

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Foundation Design Community Work 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

They want articulated goals and expectations. We were hasty experimenters, and when one technique didn't work, we would alter it, much to the perplexion of the volunteers involved. In the case of Chabot, if we had made up (reasonable) answers to questions like "where will this go?" and "how long should it be?"

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Teen Volunteer Create Design 20

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And so the question then comes into play, is it really time to go back?

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Management Work Video Slides 87

Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

There’s a question box and a chat box. If you want to get your answer questioned or your question answered, just a insider tip there. But as we move through the presentation, here are a few questions to consider. We’re going to save time for Q&A at the end. You can use either of those. Lastly, follow-up.

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Relationship Donor Build Video 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

It means that you need to engage with a purpose or articulated goal. They measure conversions in Google Analytics using three techniques: traffic sources, advanced segments, and custom link tracking. The questions are below: Which Social Media source leads to the most conversions? The how to is here. Custom Link Tracking.

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Measure Social Media Media Social 117

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Fall In Love With Understanding Your Donors Problems It is from that point that you will be able to craft and articulate compelling narratives that convert. Consider asking questions like, “What would you want the world to know?” Focus on who your donor is through segmentation, research and surveys.

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Storytelling Impact Arts Nonprofit 81

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

question and they connect us back to the team and critical importance of the part we each play. But the important question is: How effectively does your organization talk ABOUT the money you require to do your important work? Learn how to identify and articulate your “money story”; 5. What You’ll Learn: 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. Question For Today Which person on your team did you thank today? In past postings Ive shared Marriotts core values. So, dig deep for ideas.

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