Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. The scenarios clearly outline the social media objective and audience definition. Tags: training materials.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. To recap: we took advantage of popular techniques for sharing and networking conversations including URL shorteners and hashtags. Amy (& Stacey).

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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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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. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes.

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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? Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

When I'm in the room, with a large group, I'm comfortable doing the interactive presentation or incorporating the audience's. The ten steps was originally tailored for a nonprofit technology and nonprofit audience -- so some of the examples were not as relevant to the audience as the new ones that I had researched.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Experimentation also helps an organization make decisions based on audience feedback and analytics data, not your own hunches. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) 6) Design Tests That Solve A Pain Point for Your Audience: Design your experiments so they address a point of pain for a customer or audience. (7)

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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. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. Tags: mobile. How does she feel about text to give? Trepidatious.

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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. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story. Tags: powerpoint. I adopted the word archiloquy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . They talked about how Google has "no meetings Thursdays" and the audience applauded. The best question from the audience was "Is there an App for that?"

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibits), Rob Semper (Exploratorium) and I hosted a wide-ranging discussion session on design techniques for developing projects that involve both online and onsite elements. IMLS also wanted to help museums and libraries improve their skills, both for audiences and for their own professional communities. Leary (NRG!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice. Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan?

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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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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. Tagging photos. Tagging a person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

A few insights to share: I always start with an opportunity to learn a little bit about the audience. I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. There could potentially be a bad reflection back to the institution. ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

We've placed relationships as an outcome or result using the techniques of listening, learning, reflection, micro-planning, and adapting. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. Find out who is best at listening to that audience. Tags: Books. Giving Good Poke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

tags: arts ). That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. So, I made the audience a part of the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening is typically used by nonprofits to provide better customer service, correct misconceptions, and other ways to support external audiences. You should reach out to both audiences. That happens when leaders model and encourage it. Nonprofits are also using listening to support improved program implementation. This drove traffic.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

After a very successful three days I had some time to reflect about what made this technology initiative such a success. Know your audience. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. Who is the audience you want to reach for your social media strategy? What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are the techniques for "listening'? Some places I want to go.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. The visual design of your website should be bold and accurately reflect your organization’s brand or identity. make sure that you have a set process for how that content gets created, named, and tagged. Set standardized processes for posting new content.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Forum One works hand-in-hand with major civic and social organizations to ensure that their online content is effective and reaches target audiences. It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag. Regularly update your content to reflect the latest industry trends and changes.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. These institutions have three additional reasons for homogeneity: The audience cycles frequently as families "age out." Trying to cover it up or smooth it out in favor of "best practices" does a disservice to the museum and the audience.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Thank people for coming, and encourage them to reflect on the visit's outcomes. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. Have a brilliant audience. A funny thing happened. What I do the same?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). 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. Tags: ROI. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Some of the signage pointed out “firsts” happening at the preserve—new techniques for introducing species into new habitats, creating a completely mammal pest-free environment, and inviting people to visit the project while underway. Tags: storytelling marketing design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

GivingTuesday has historically famous for engaging audiences on social media: in fact, it’s estimated that there were an astounding 14.2 Fundraising techniques, such as peer-to-peer, crowdfunding, and special event fundraising (especially if you’re looking at how to move your events to virtual). Make Partnerships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

A couple of reflections. It is always fun to do a panel when the majority of the audience is Gen Y and Gen X - and they are using tools like live streaming and Twitter. And, I knew this audience pretty well from having worked with organizations and networks that focus on sexual and reproductive health. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. I'm nervous.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

I'm a huge fan of Jane's and have been writing about her work since the early days of this blog, so I was thrilled to learn that the CFM was bringing in Jane to speak live and then opening up the lecture to a wider audience of about 300 online. This long reflection on external motivation relates directly to the core mission of museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. I was lucky enough to discover @ gauravonomics work in translating these profiles to an audience in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The lab used human design facilitation techniques that I have been trained on by Luma Institute. We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). Once we had this common understanding, we iterated on the initial brainstorming question.

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