Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress. It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. Set Your iPhone to 1995 Mode.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing. What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come. There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. We have found that the process of listing your resources in a clear, organized manner can help you wrap your brain around how you can go about raising the funds needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. Year in Review. 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning. With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

My organizational leadership mind had alarm bells ringing so loudly that I thought people could hear them. That means that to get a final data set on a particular student or group of students, they had to manually compile and export from these various systems, only to turn around and manually enter the data into another system.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I have seen the future of interpretative design, and that future is data visualization. On the face of it, data visualization is just about the least sexy thing imaginable. I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times. I'm talking tables of figures. Huge swaths of words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions?

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Thank You – Impact Focus Show the donor how their gift makes an impact through story, personal anecdotes, and data. Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. 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. Pick the right hard data points.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

He spent a long time discussing the IMA’s award-winning online dashboard , which shows real-time data about everything from visitor zip codes to photography requests to the size of the endowment. I was thrilled by Max’s talk and looked forward to seeing how the physical site reflected the transparency and engagement he spoke about.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. Consistent, relevant content is key to keeping your campaign top of mind for donors. This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible. 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . We’re going to do a little intro. . no, no, no.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And it represents the highest year of giving on record since the Giving Institute began tracking this data more than 60 years ago. It really unpacks data around the composition of boards and specifically, the implications of diversity on boards, programming, fundraising, and operations. It’s how my brain works.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? So when I think about back to work as a manager, these are some of the things that comes to mind for me. If you’re like me, you might also have half the conversation in your mind before you have it out loud. It’s the funniest thing ever. Absolutely. I love that.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But there are still opportunities, and there is some changes that funders have made to be mindful of those things during COVID. And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. I think you can keep going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. First, I want to say a few words about my enthusiastic support for the critique of closed licensing offered by Michelle by reflecting a bit on my past actions in this regard.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As you review these best practices, remember to keep your donors’ needs top of mind. One of the best resources you have for planning this year’s end-of-season campaign is your data , including the results from last year. Don’t let confirmation emails go to waste. Optimize your donation form. Let’s get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Take a guess.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. Are you using data as your guide? Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Infographics. What’s the story?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Your old prejudices and hang-ups, your own beliefs about credentials, are hanging out in your mind, no matter how you try to avoid it. Then, when you look through resumes, your unconscious brain might move you to a certain candidate. I work with a couple of data-obsessed folks, so my analysis was somewhat easy.

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