Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects. Brainstorm: Methods for generating new ideas – recombining, adding, subtracting. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

This means customers are able to freely import data from external sources, utilize custom mapping to connect that data to the desired objects or fields in a Salesforce org and catch any potential duplicate records in the process before they are created. Data Mover is a free managed package that is also cloud-agnostic.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 NTC this year talking about the ideas in his recent book, “ Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work.” Map the data. The steps are: Collect your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

She recently authored an excellent e-book on how to use Evernote ). Many times I take notes in a visual format like mind mapping that helps me better understand the conversation as it unfolds. I have practiced using my iPad with drawing apps, but I’m not quite fluent enough in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Or have coloring books or other fun stuff in the break room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

Terry and Rusty Stahl have just published a new book, “ The Talent Development Platform ,” that provides strategic and practical information to help nonprofits guide, nurture, and strengthen the next generation of nonprofit leaders. Click To Get Your Copy Now! Heather Carpenter and Tera Wozniak Qualls, along with Alexis S. Agreed upon plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Creating a Network Map. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. 8 Must-Read Books on Training Design. How To Get Started Designing Peer Learning That Works. Peer Learning As A Prelude to Collective Action. I cebreakers and Closers. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Icebreakers Tips and Tricks. The Art of Good Closers.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Learn from direct response – Study annual appeals, door knocking, and other methods that inspire immediate action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Some tip include mapping out a good process for work flow and using collaborative technology effectively. Amy Su Jen offers up a great framework for individuals. This can contribute to overload unless you have a method to establish a remote work policy. There are ways of working that can reduce collaborative overload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

” I will have a full book review coming. With this particular activity being an experiment we didn’t formally map out a ladder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Here’s ten books that nonprofit colleagues and authors have shared with me in the last few months and I wanted to share them with you. If you are looking for more recommendations, check out Book Authority’s list of 52 Best Nonprofit eBooks of All Time ( The Happy Healthy Nonprofit is #9).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

There are tools and methods available to help transition and engage the creativity of your stake holders. the book Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability by Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka , and Steve Zimmerman. The first step, however, is to make planning and forward thinking a priority. One of the most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In her recent book, Beth Kanter talks about a ladder of engagement, with smaller actions laying the foundation for larger ones. Once you have laid out your top posts and examined their tone, content and format, use any themes that emerged to map out your future posts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Better maybe, for the different pieces to keep to themselves, with their own methods, language, and professional development programs? My favorite historian, Peter Dobkin Hall , wrote a defining essay in one of his books that describes the "invention" of the nonprofit sector in the United States.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

Information = Data + Communication Because data must be communicated to be informative, our methods of communication become paramount. In a digital age, these methods have been revolutionized, fundamentally altering the landscape in which data become information. Communication turns data into information.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The group was excited, humble, and diverse, but 10 minutes into the talk I found myself getting more and more frustrated and confused (It probably did not help that I just finished reading an article called When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs ). Who had the power to write these rules?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We devote an entire chapter to it and the workshop exercise is based on this chapter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve known this for years, ever since I read Richard Mayer ‘s educational research in his book, The Handbook of Multi-Media Learning. The study was of medical school lectures. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books. first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Terry / aXis / You Are a Dog / the book / the blog // We Are the Cat / the blog. We used a map metaphor , inspired by and adapted a post by Chris Brogan. Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. Flickr photo by Terry Bain. I found 3 really good planning templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I ask participants to share on an index card as part of a raffle for my book.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. The choice of method for transferring and exchanging knowledge will depend on the audience and the message [but] knowledge is most effectively exchanged when using multiple methodsâ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It helps a network get more specific with the work flow which maps to different online collaboration and social media tools. I want to take a deeper dive into the techniques for real-time monitoring and see if there are methods for rapid learning opportunities. Network purposes adds another layer of clarity.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 10, 2007

When I first started out building software, one of the books I read was Tony DeMarco's Controlling Software Projects. But somehow, (maybe it was the title) it left me with the feeling that when I got really good at this I'd be able to map out the path of a project in advance and steer it right in, exactly as imagined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Often a breakthrough is accelerated by a good book – for Food: The Omnivore’s Dilemma. It offers us a “Map” of how each story affects people and communities. It maps out our plans, our design, our work, the response, our redesign, our work, the response and the overall progress to crossing the Chasm . True change.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

Her confidence and engagement methods and authentic relationship buildings get 10 donors on the phone fast, and they all participate in the challenge. Then we use my signature asset mapping system that helps you identify both what your partners are looking for and what your assets are beyond your programming.

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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. So we used a mapping and communications workshop to layout a Theory of Impact and sequencing strategy to help them secure their first major core funder.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

Her confidence and engagement methods and authentic relationship buildings get 10 donors on the phone fast, and they all participate in the challenge. And I really didn’t want to leave the nonprofit sector, so I spent the next few months iterating and creating a reliable fundraising method with the tiny bit of time that I could sacrifice.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And the capital campaign is a sequence of events that’s methodically planned. . And so before their case for support was even dry, before they mapped out their gift tables, their leadership team was. . I’m a huge fan of the book “Essentialism.” Push back against adding that to your job description.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. Once you have answered these questions, map identified needs across functional roles. Cassie Scarano, Commongood Careers. [Ed.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

She published a book in 2010 titled "The Participatory Museum" that outlined the ideas of her blog -- and many of the world's big-city museums brought her in to help them figure out how to shake off the fusty image of museums and embrace modern times and modern audiences. We painted a big map of the western U.S.

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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.). Design thinking methods are great way to identify and articulate some of those first step ideas.

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Media Cause

MAY 23, 2022

For the Yosemite Conservancy , Lori Chinn created a set of illustrations inspired by the look and feel of vintage park maps. . When promoting the Women’s Health Protection Act for the Center of Reproductive Rights we used this method. The most obvious example of this is in children’s books. Ansley Luce 2021). Lori Chinn 2022).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

In our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” we offer a method for measuring marketing and communications campaigns that integrate social media. Some of the posts shared some great case studies, insights, and tips about each step of the process: Set Goals. A Measureable Road Map to Success.

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