Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Opening Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

If you’re hosting a text fundraising campaign for the first time, make sure you run a few test text messages once you choose a fundraising platform. Create your goals using the SMART method. One common method is to use humor in your text fundraising appeals. Another method is to utilize urgency in your messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics. Through our conversation, we also touched on the metrics for blogs. I've summarized a couple of the tips he offers about methods for testing. (1) This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. Flickr Photo by Sebr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I like to use a combined method. Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. The above shows the methods. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. I like to use a combined method. Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. The above shows the methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

The Pomodoro method and app is one way to avoid the productivity loss of procrastination. There are many Mood Trackers, apps that let you you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. That is procrastination and is one symptom of being distracted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two different methods to evaluate your training. But, if you use reflection, documentation,pilot tests, and iteration, it is like tasting your soup while there’s still time to make adjustments. But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

I posted the above photo on my Facebook page , primarily to test how different content sparks interaction on my own Facebook page. But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

In fact, quite the contrary it is meant to be informative, taken at face value, and tested so that there is no question about its intent, or encroaching gray area surrounding what elements can be governed within an organization. It may be time to consider changing your delivery method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

” One method that some nonprofits engage in to improve an event or campaign is an “ After Action Review.,” 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

APRIL 28, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with a practice model that I’ve been using over the years and was able to crystallize some of my thinking into “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly&# that I’ve been testing for designing training workshops and peer learning projects. Also, as with all frameworks, the reality is messy.

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JUNE 2, 2011

In a nutshell, creating a social media strategy that can stand the test of time. It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

” The reports offers up the metaphor of “ how shift from fighting fires to innovation ” The report also talks about an organization’s cultural readiness to switch to a culture of continuous improvement, using a blog post I wrote about being data-informed for inspiration. What does it look it? How did it get started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Why Use One? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. The tools have changed, but the need for knowing your audience, having an end goal, testing theories, and acting on lessons learned remains the same. It involves method, just like anything else. Test for What Works. She provides a resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. A Simple Method For Getting Started. Robin has tested hundreds of tools – from free to enterprise level. They taste many wines to find the best of the best to match with the food in the restaurant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments. What is the difference?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I asked if I had permission to blog or tweet general insights? I want to take a deeper dive into the techniques for real-time monitoring and see if there are methods for rapid learning opportunities. I will share this in a separate blog post in a bit as I'm savoring the learning like sipping a fine wine.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

What are some techniques and tools for interactive presenting? There are different methods of incorporating audience feedback depending on the format of the panel or session. I'm presenting in August at a conference and I'm so going to test it out. But what happens when you go into the real world and attend conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. Another fun role is “Rabbit Hole Monitor” that uses a technique called “ ELMO ” (enough already let’s move on). Many platforms have a technical testing page and good tech support, include those links ahead of your meeting.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

Crowdfunding is a popular method because if it’s done right, your campaign will go viral and people will hear about it. As a seasoned fundraising organization, you’re bringing your techniques and skills to a new platform. You’ll have to give them articles, blog posts, videos , and photographs to share.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. It was the right medium, but the wrong method. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways.

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

These techniques are used by threat actors to influence unsuspecting individuals into acting or sharing information that can be leveraged for a cyberattack. Password Cracking Password cracking involves using various methods (computational and otherwise) to break through password authentication to gain access to an account.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 10, 2007

All we needed to do was perfect our techniques at requirements analysis, estimation, coding, testing, deployment, training, documentation, and coffee-brewing. At testing time the clients suddenly thought of an unanticipated set of requirements. So agile methods stress responding rather than controlling. It was futile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. 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. How do you apply these two methods?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

And, there is also a Lean Start Up Conference taking place in December that I will cover on this blog, taking the lens of how to apply to nonprofit work. The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” In the following test we had two photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. We have been testing these workshops for the last few months and have had some interesting early results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. Many platforms have a technical testing page and good tech support, include those links ahead of your meeting. Establish a method you can call in participants. Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). The best ideas would be given small discretionary giving grants to test out the idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

They follow the scientific method which includes coming up with hypothesis question, collecting data, analyzing results, and getting insight to their questions. My daughter’s project involved testing different potting soils to see one was better for seed germination. Note fishhook in right wing. What works for you?Kate

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