Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Paul’s post unpacks some of the findings from the evaluation, but also raises some important questions about doing transformational capacity building. How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Getting creative and re-evaluating old peer-to-peer fundraising methods has become especially important in recent years due to declines in household giving. Onboarding is the process of training your peer-to-peer fundraisers to run a successful campaign on your behalf. Set up donation pages. Connect with other fundraisers.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Naturally, it will take a lot of time, training, and labor to get it up and running, but once it is all configured, it will solve all your problems. In addition to this, I was thinking about all the ways I could make things better and easier for teachers during what was about to be the hardest teaching year of their lives. You did it!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

There are a few things that may be going on here: You have the right person in this job; they need some training and/or coaching. Provide training and/or coaching. Teach your staff to fish: People aren’t born knowing how to build a major donor pipeline and expertly move folks through this pipeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 3, 2020

Flavio Martins ' book, Win The Customer , teaches you 70 simple rules for sensational service. Martin recommends you conduct a 60-second customer experience evaluation to determine exactly where you are in the customer experience journey, and how you're using customer service to develop loyal customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Celebrated my 9th Year of Blogging: I continued to blog or host guest posts regularly every week as I have been doing for the past nine years. Year in Review.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Most people know that they have to sell themselves during a job interview or an annual performance evaluation at work. And no other book on personal branding teaches readers the sales skills that will help them sell that brand—sell themselves—like a pro. Do we need training or more education? A new wardrobe?

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APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Three tips for teaching digital literacy and citizenship: Start with a clear vision. Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Facilitation'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well. The book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session. Walk and Talk: I do this a lot in half-day or full-day trainings.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

When evaluating your learning program, are you making the most of what is available to you? Here is a quick guideline in evaluating the free content available to you, and how to augment your learning program with what you find. Evaluate Current Content. Evaluating the Free Content. Not all free content is created equally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. Participants prioritized the ideas by combining and evaluating the cost/impact, boiling down to a couple of ideas to present to the whole group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Tweet questions to me at @annkemery , comment on Excel for Evaluation to request tutorials, or email me to request in-person training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. My Three Words.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 22, 2019

Flavio Martins ' book, Win The Customer , teaches you 70 simple rules for sensational service. Martin recommends you conduct a 60-second customer experience evaluation to determine exactly where you are in the customer experience journey, and how you're using customer service to develop loyal customers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. The finance discussion could be your most important ever in your new board member training.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Before I start, it is best to issue a few disclaimers: I am not a neuroscientist; this blog post is not written with appropriate scientific method. To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. Convey teachings in a manner that doesn’t sound like a dictionary definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. Get Training : Data for Good is an association for people who work in nonprofit and data and offers the “ Do Good Data University “ where you find excellent webinars on a variety topics. .”

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. As per the reporting and analytics portion of this blog, learning and development programs everywhere are benefitting from the addition of better reporting practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. But applying it on your own – unless you are an analytics genius – can be difficult.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

Picture Flavio Martins ' new book, Win The Customer , teaches you 70 simple rules for sensational service. Martin recommends you conduct a 60-second customer experience evaluation to determine exactly where you are in the customer experience journey, and how you're using customer service to develop loyal customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. Get Training : NTEN is offering regular webinars on the topic of how nonprofits can effectively use data. The team works on a practical project that take less than four weeks to complete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. We had a lot of content and process to go through during the two-day training. I do not speak Spanish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). explains the how and why.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. Do you have needed staff and volunteer resources, including plans to train, engage and retain them? Her award-winning blog showcases her practical approach, which earned her the AFP “Outstanding Fundraising Professional of the Year” award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. This summer I was lucky enough to do a network training with June Holley.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Use current volunteers as a resource. However, some people do.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators. Setting key performance indicators (KPIs) around customer service lets employees know you’re evaluating performance objectively. . Her award-winning blog showcases her practical approach, which earned her the AFP “Outstanding Fundraising Professional of the Year” award.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Blog Commencement. In order to properly write this blog post, I will be writing in accordance with the rules of the first Presidential Debate. I flipped a coin to determine whether or not I should even write this post, and then another to determine which of my two monitors I would be focused on for the duration of this blog post.

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