Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Some Reflections. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Show your virtual audience that effective corporate networking is possible in a hybrid event. You want your audience to come back from your hybrid event with rave reviews. Think of the ways that attendees will be interacting with your event and try to improve them. Strategy #3- Set Expectations for Each Audience Type.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Show your virtual audience that effective corporate networking is possible in a hybrid event. You want your audience to come back from your hybrid event with rave reviews. Think of the ways that attendees will be interacting with your event and try to improve them. Strategy #3- Set Expectations for Each Audience Type.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day. The New Social Economy.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

But ChatGPT’s deep learning techniques allow it to create optimized subject lines for any email. You can ask the program to generate a list of email ideas and then refine the list based on any number of factors, such as audience, theme, tone and more. Donors want to feel like they are interacting with people, not robots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

When I train other trainers (this one is face-to-face), I get them to share and brainstorm “Meet & Greet” questions that are relevant to a particular audience or topic, such as this one from a group of fundraisers. Here’s a write of this technique. Some of these were inspired by this tweet. It is a lot of fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? I truly believe that the more engaged the audience the better learning and the better retention. Straight presentation kills all learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction.

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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. It takes several iterations of your survey to develop one that works, but you really gain a good understanding of the level of your audience.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz. but I didn't have numbers to back it up. Or at least preliminary ones.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2019

While fundraising communications are often counterintuitive to people outside of the field, the reality is that it most of its best practices are grounded in time-tested techniques and principles of classical rhetoric ?defined lean forward in their chairs—and have a vested interest in generating resolution. . Conclusion.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

All of this is done not only because it is the right thing to do, but also because it’s an approach that will build trust with audiences and help build long-term relationships. Finally, it includes limiting efforts to track users beyond what is needed and, when appropriate, opting for first-party data over third-party tracking.

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Gyrus

MAY 19, 2016

Gamification is fast emerging as an effective and exciting technique to engage with learners in the corporate training world. Gamification is the technique of using game elements and mechanics in the learning environment. Let’s take a very simple example to understand how it exactly engages the learning audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It will not only keep your energy up, but your audience engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep! This session closed with a reflection of how they could apply tips and recommendations and use measurement to further test these ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. Interactive. When I'm in the room, with a large group, I'm comfortable doing the interactive presentation or incorporating the audience's. I could have done some things better with Webinar instructional practice. Collaborating.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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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. Don’t Just Research Your Audience, Make Them Part of the Presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. Once you understand your own behavior and a technique for letting go of failure, you need to understand other people in your organization and establish this as a way of working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. As part of my learning journey to put these ideas into practice, I’m integrating visual techniques into my facilitation repertoire. Two things I did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. It's an interactive flash site that lets users find and adopt words that are in danger of being removed from the dictionary.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Both of these designers presented compelling images and evidence from exhibit work and child development experts about the idea that you can make sophisticated, muted exhibits that help children slow down, focus, and enjoy themselves with interactive content. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I'm preparing for a Social Media workshop next month called " Making Sense of and Success with Social Media " where the audience will be consultants who work with nonprofits in other areas (not technology). I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. I begin with the instructional goals and finding out as much as possible about the audience. Audience Research.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just like with User Interviews , you want to make each of your audience groups is represented in your participant pool. So if your audience groups are volunteers, donors and alumni, you want to make sure you include a few participants from each group. We typically aim for a participant pool of 15-50 constituents. Deliverables.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Segment your audience and individualize your appeals, receipts, thank-you notes, and newsletters with: . Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand. Base this on your documented research, and follow it carefully! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. So, I made the audience a part of the curriculum. The topics covered included: ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. We know that good practice is to establish measurable objectives for your social media strategy and identify the audience before you executive. The target audience is people who work for nonprofits. Unsubscribes. Page Views. Photo Views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

(not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. s interest to education and engage new audiences. it takes advantage of the established Flickr community???s

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). Learn strategies, tools and techniques to enhance your individual leadership style and talents. InterAction Forum 2018. InterAction Forum 2018. InterAction / Washington, DC / TBD. Marketing.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Identify Your Unique Value Proposition & Broadcast it to Your Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

What are the techniques for conversational weaving? In retrospect, I designed the game more for a range people who work in a nonprofits - technical and mangerial - and this audience a mix of more technical and technology providers. How to prepare the next generation of moderators in OS communities?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. The ‘frontend’ of your organization’s website is the publicly-visible part that your donors and supporters interact with. Optimizing the frontend of your website is essential for giving your supporters a positive user experience when interacting with it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Who are they? What are their needs?

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