Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I nominate #14ntctrain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Click to see full size image.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Build consensus around target audiences. Visual Design. Solution Design.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference is designed to be a lean, mean, digital best practices machine, which makes it a great fit for nonprofit pros looking to hone their skills, but maybe not a great fit for those looking to build their professional network. Cost: General admission is free. Cost: 2023 ticket prices have not been released yet.

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

That experience stuck with me and over the next few weeks I designed a way to take advantage of a similar psychological cue on GlobalGiving. Eventually I decided to have a small, unobtrusive box slide out from the page’s lower corner a few seconds after the it loaded, and make a similar appeal. The Big Question. Our Method.

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Achieve

APRIL 15, 2015

From the experience design to logistics to technology to coordinating with speakers, sponsors, partners, media … so many details are involved, which can make an event a huge time suck if you let it. Schedule a phone call to talk about the promotional partner’s audience. Who the audience is. Finalize the agreement.

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

From their incredible flexibility to their ability to reach a vast audience, virtual events are extremely beneficial for associations, nonprofits, and event-hosting organizations of all kinds. Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. We hope that you enjoyed your experience [describe the nature of the event’s activities].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. Dubbed by Qualtrics to be “the greatest gathering of experience management professionals on the planet”, the Qualtrics X4 Summit was almost canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. . Qualtrics WorkDifferent Digital Event Series.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Utilize Visuals Humanize your nonprofit’s stories by adding visuals like photos and videos to engage your audience. This provides a behind-the-scenes of your storytelling process and ensures your audience that people are telling their stories willingly. Does your audience resonate more with photos or videos?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Experience Our Nonprofit Event On-Demand. Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. How you can apply what our team learned to your next event.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. Visual Design. Solution Design. Deliverables.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Chicago 2022 was a brand-new opportunity for the Salesforce DevOps community to connect and share expertise at a designated conference. This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Games with incentives or prizes can allow your audience members to display their talents and vote for those who perform the game the best! The audience was then asked to vote on their favorite one, with the winner announced the following day on Twitter. . This will engage the audience but also provide the speaker (and you, as host!)

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges event planners face when hosting a virtual event is ensuring high levels of audience engagement. They provide lower overhead costs which means a greater return on investment and they can be marketing to a wider audience, meaning attendees can be drawn from a global pool.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. Or let your community’s youth put their own designs on the runway for all the aspiring fashionistas. Partner with local spas or wellness centers to sponsor the event for a luxurious experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. Minus the audience ratings or competitive aspect) Maybe use the "Ask Later" 5-minute format, popularized by Ignite Seattle. (10 s part of the fun.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

By using a graphic background for their site, coupled with an animated slideshow of community engagement, IPLSF sets the tone as soon as their audience reaches their page. The overlay of an inspirational quote further drives home the message, with rhetoric that perfectly mirrors the oversized slide show. The Africa Hope Alliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

My goal for conference presenting moving forward is to be on panels that I have designed or co-designed and that design involves the audience beyond a 5 minute q/a at the end. I realized that I enjoy presenting at sessions when the audience gets to share their knowledge with the room and each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. The hope is that these various experiences will lead to inspiration, encouragement, new explorations. My slides are here. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. My slides are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Defined Audience. 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 may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments. Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? ” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. It frames and personalizes the exhibit experience. instead of what is?)

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. Here are a few things that I think helped make this experience valuable: We started from communities' needs, not the museum's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Webinars can greatly benefit from developing a “run of show” which in radio is a script designed to outline the order and amount of timing for items to be discussed within a program. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket. Make Presentations Social.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges event planners face when hosting a virtual event is ensuring high levels of audience engagement. They provide lower overhead costs which means a greater return on investment and they can be marketing to a wider audience, meaning attendees can be drawn from a global pool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Using a live streaming application called "Live Stream," conference organizers of the Governor's Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Texas are hoping to draw in an online audience into the discussion about social innovation. LiveStream and other platforms like it can be used creatively at conferences to involve an online audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. Lately, I've had the experience of running the game as a 3-hour workshop as part of a second day of peer learning workshops on Network Effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. I begin with the instructional goals and finding out as much as possible about the audience. Audience Research.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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