Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Prioritize donor stewardship : Focus attentively on donor stewardship and engagement to build strong, long-lasting relationships with your supporters. Have you brought this to the attention of your CEO and board? Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation?

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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. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Ensure that your nonprofit is regularly evaluating your equipment’s security, from your servers to your computers. Password management software helps facilitate the creation and secure storage of complex passwords. As the digital world evolves, your cybersecurity practices will require continuous attention and adaptation.

Nonprofit 111

Nonprofit Software Practice Offline 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks? How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks?

Build 112

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

No nonprofit fundraising plan is complete without specific attention paid to online fundraising. Evaluate your current fundraising strategy. If you don’t have a formal strategy, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your individual fundraising efforts and campaigns. Online fundraising. Make giving easy. Your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By translating these lessons into the nonprofit context, we can gain valuable insights into crafting campaigns that inspire participation rather than simply grab attention. This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention. Facilitate two-way dialogue to make supporters feel heard.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton.

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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

Iowa 50

Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. In 2012, Howard Rheingold facilitated the production of the “ Peeragogy Handbook ,” a practical how-to. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

Analytics 106

Analytics Google Digital Free 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Advocates get more attention from policymakers. For each phase, there are specific criteria and indicators that an organization will develop. We are tracking progress against a baseline. Amplify peers’ efforts.

Network 97

Network Build Learning Strategy 97

.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

You can set and forget operations, but more strategic considerations need constant attention. A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy.

Technology 170

Technology Evaluation System Associations 170

.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, we also realized that remote work is here to stay, and like the dog that needs a walk, interpersonal relationships are going to continue to require deliberate attention. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses.

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Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This means more than just losing your employees’ attention at your All Hands meetings. We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Facilitating these relationships is key to making your business feel more like a community. Tech stack.

Ideas 52

Ideas Practice Leadership Roles 52

Forum One

JULY 26, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. As you plan to launch your community, be mindful of the calendar: pay attention to when your grantees will be willing and able to participate, and find ways to align participation with other important events you have planned. Is a grantee ready to participate?

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Collaboration Time Synchronous Influence 47

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.

Facilitation 109

Facilitation Virtual Effective Practice 109

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This section calls to attention that nonprofits, as an ecosystem, require broad agency over their data to best serve their constituents. It’s inefficient, costly, and it means that nonprofits will always need to evaluate, at some point or another, when to leave one large platform ecosystem behind for another.

Problem 62

Problem Data API Global 62

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, most nonprofit CRMs share a few standard features to help nonprofits evaluate and act on donor data. Essential nonprofit CRM features Different software solutions prioritize different features to help you assess donor data in different ways.

Profile 92

Profile Software Nonprofit Donor 92

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . The potential donor turns into a donor after evaluating their options and donating to the organization. Draw attention to your “Donate” button with bright colors and CTAs. . New, lapsed, or at-risk donors. . Be personal.

Campaign 98

Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. Grab your audience with something that commands attention â??

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Take the time to assess your operations and evaluate any gaps that volunteer work could fill. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members.

Volunteer 98

Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. Within modules, you may ask learners fill-in-the-blank questions to ensure they’ve been paying attention to the course material covered. What are the different types of online assessment?

eLearning 69

eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

This wasn’t easy before and it will be even harder now, but as attention to labor concerns increases and our understanding of who “essential workers” really are shifts, now is the time. Are you just setting these aside with the idea of returning to them all later, when funding is available, or is a larger re-evaluation merited?

Museum 29

Museum Digital Internet Professional 29

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A few of the ideas that caught my attention are below. A few that I noted were: Cloud tools facilitate real-time collaboration. The presenters stressed that the cloud is changing constantly, so you can't just evaluate cloud solutions once. Defining the Cloud. unfortunate connotations. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff).

NTEN 52

NTEN Synchronous Doc Internet 52

Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

Technology facilitates smarter messaging, smarter asks, and more personalized experiences with our organization. With a rich and complete view of both our constituents and our outreach, we can set realistic goals, evaluate past outreach for trends and success, and identify targets in the pipeline as new potential donors.

Donor 20

Donor Technology Fundraising Offline 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing?

Museum 92

Museum Campaign Flickr Arts 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Everyone attended a 90-minute presentation by Eric Schwartzman on what social media is and why we should pay attention. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Remix Social 94

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches.

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Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. The point was to create “SMARTer” objectives. The “E” stands for evaluator and the “R” stands for “Revaluate.”

Social Media 97

Social Media Training Train Network 97

See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

NTEN facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within the nonprofit community. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! For additional information about See3 Communications, visit www.see3.net Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Award Video San Francisco Contest 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

The white includes a summary of discussion from a roundtable of social media experts discussing the attributes and dimensions of influence and how it differs from other attributes, for example attention. How does one use the information to shape an evaluation of your communication strategy? How does one use this information ???

Social Media 50

Social Media Influence Meme Media 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Once you understand and evaluate various key metrics and corresponding benchmarks, you can use your analysis as a blueprint to think strategically about how to improve your event’s future fundraising results. Use social media to connect and facilitate dialogue. Be different.

Marketing 55

Marketing Tips Online Analysis 55

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Your audience will respond to stories that immediately grab their attention. It invites its super fans to join a private Facebook group, with useful information and a facilitated discussion. Figure out what actually happens after you send out an email, and evaluate your approach based on that. theSkimm has an ambassador program.

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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. I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing.

Goal 50

Goal ROI Wiki Metrics 50

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

According to Peter Schwartz, Co-founder and Chairman of the Global Business Network “ by focusing its patience, capital, and attention on the links between technology and international development, philanthropy will change not just lives but the very context in which the field of philanthropy operates.”

Philanthropy 36

Philanthropy Develop Technology Government 36

Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2015

There has been little consensus about the impact of focusing on overhead as a means of evaluating nonprofit organizations, either among nonprofit leadership or researchers.

Time 20

Time Donor Research Issue 20