Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I do a lot of presenting and am spending to much time writing bullet points, creating slides, and practicing what I’m going to say. I think that this puts a stop to creating conversation in the room. I wanted to learn some conversational mechanics — so I could stop talking at people and begin talking with them.

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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? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Depending on the learning objectives, you could even skip the slides altogether, or adapt them for a pre-work activity. As part of the planning, it might be a good idea to have the slides so participants can organize their thoughts and prepare, but then transform it into an conversation by ditching the slides for the actual webinar.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are also VIP tickets available for Radical Impact that come with all session recordings and session notes, custom slides and speaker content, a bonus marketing strategy from Community Boost, additional CFRE credits, and (most importantly) a free t-shirt! Cost: General admission is free.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

No presenter who just reads bullet points off a PowerPoint instead does it because they want their audience to eagerly contemplate running from the room. Reading a PowerPoint feels like an easy way to tell your audience all the info they want and be sure not to forget anything important. Nope, they do it because it feels safe.

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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. Here's how I've documented all the social media fundraising campaigns: Objective and Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked.

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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? Laura Lee Dooley captured this blog post about the session , plus you can find my slides all the links and other resources here.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Well, let me take down my slides because they want to hear from you, not me. So are you ready for me to present my slides? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The morning session focused on the building blocks of strategy – SMART objectives, audience identification, and messaging. It boils down to audience. It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Bridge Conference Slides View more presentations from kanter. Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI.

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

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. I divided our audience into eight segments, and showed each segment a unique combination of those three variables. Part 1: The Foot-in-the-Door technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." We've placed relationships as an outcome or result using the techniques of listening, learning, reflection, micro-planning, and adapting. Find out who is best at listening to that audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Minus the audience ratings or competitive aspect) Maybe use the "Ask Later" 5-minute format, popularized by Ignite Seattle. (10 10 powerpoint slides (visuals only) with each slide on the screen for 30 seconds. After each case study, the audience will get to ask questions. s part of the fun.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up. I begin with the instructional goals and finding out as much as possible about the audience. Audience Research. The Topics.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. You can view and download all the slides here. conference audiences are ready to work (and play).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

To help address this challenge, here are six incredible tips from public speaking coach, Eileen Smith of Spokesmith , that can elevate you to rock star status in your circles, and keep your audience fully focused and enthusiastically spreading your key points through their networks. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. It has to resonate with your audience and connect back to your school experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” When the people, formerly known as the audience, get to participate, you always learn something. That’s changed. They want to combine both. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

There's nothing like having an audience to see where you got inside your own head too much. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

John Haydon said This Scientifically Proven Fundraising Technique Will Shock You , and he was right. This simple technique conflicts with the majority of fundraising advice you’ll find, but the meta-analysis of over 22,000 (42 studies) suggests that giving the option of NOT donating can actually boost your fundraising results.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Know your audience. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g. Each of these audiences can engage online during an event, however the tactics for helping them do so greatly differ. The list goes on and on, depending on what you're trying to accomplish (and who your audience is!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Monitors feedback from target audience in real time but balances with trend or survey data. Documents quantitative results against goals and value when asked by senior leadership. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data.

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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. Why It is Important ??? Here's how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. The Best Free Sources of Social Media Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

Here's what Ivan had to say: J ust wanted to highlight a small initiative we sent out today using Collactive , a web firm that helps organizations use their network of members to promote news stories and websites to larger audiences. now off to integrate it into my slides show for my session at the Bridge Conference on Tuesday.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

All the technique, training, and "PowerPoint" tricks are useless if the talk doesn't come from your gut, from your heart and soul. His personal web site has some good tips on creating , delivering , and slide design. Notes on prep/creative process: I love his tips and he shares his creation process too. to persuade, sell, or inform ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience. Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. When I'm in the room, with a large group, I'm comfortable doing the interactive presentation or incorporating the audience's. We got started about a half hour late. No problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

” This is a common theme for those interested in incorporating visualization techniques. The presentation also notes that it is important match methods to the audience and their learning style. The styles are: head, heart, and hand. Are you using visualization techniques in your nonprofit?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

Just think of the positive and additional benefits that come from adding video, conference calls, photo albums, slide shows and a host of other techniques easily and inexpensively available. Offering more options and more impressions works the same for messaging. And when your goal is reached, it is tangible and self-evident.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. In half-day workshop (4-5 hours), I give more time for reports for each group.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This post recaps these sessions, provides my slides, and shares what I learned at the conference. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. Download my slides here. Download our slides here. Leary (NRG!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

ForumOne Communications blog answers the question " How do you engage 5% of your audience that are most important to you ?" " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. Yikes, there are no rules. Tactical Philanthropy weighs in on the debate.

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