Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The peer learning exchange offers one-on-one coaching for 16 state organizations that work on children’s health care insurance, monthly peer webinars, and a face-to-face workshop. This technical assistance design is a balance of expert support with peer learning and an intentional strategy for building the network’s capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture. Cultural Indicators.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Text marketing , also known as SMS marketing, can help your organization engage supporters, build relationships, and ultimately boost your fundraising results. For example, adding a Salesforce SMS app to your nonprofit’s Salesforce database allows you to quickly create segments based on your existing donor data.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Need to create your 2021 fundraising plan? Register for the course, “How To Create A Fundraising Plan For 2021” for only $115. “If Creating a Fundraising Plan. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting. Here at CauseVox , we know how important the process of creating a fundraising plan is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. How To Design Transformative Capacity Building for Nonprofits. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Creating a Network Map. Evaluation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He adds that 2020 was the moment of truth for character, and building an upstanding company character is what will drive long-lasting success. Calderoni : I’ve always wanted to share a business strategy that I’m passionate about, creating corporate character. If you don’t know it or don’t have one, work with others to create one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Participation builds loyalty and community. Illustrate the concrete change created by donor support. Creating an always-on text-to-give campaign for impulse donations. Key Takeaway #4: Learn from Direct Response Many general advertisers used brief 30-second TV commercials that aim to build vague brand awareness in the 60s.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Create engaging opportunities for new donors, but make sure those opportunities will be profitable in the long run. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

." AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? The common tip? Craft good headlines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set.

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas. Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Code for America tracks their impact on open governance ecosystems by monitoring a range of results, including the number of apps created by fellows that are sustained by municipal administrations. L earn and borrow from others. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Create Good Social Media Habits.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. 7 Steps for Creating a Nonprofit Digital Marketing Strategy. With a coherent, unified digital strategy, these platforms build upon each other. Phase 1: The Identification Stage.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Here are five tips to build more engaged remote teams. People can also create user guides on their personal working styles. This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. The post Five tips to build engagement on remote teams appeared first on Candid Blog.

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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. The podcast is called “Creating Community for Good Podcast.” It started during COVID.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. For any topic, you can create a “bag” to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation tools’ capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I started with an introduction to the Networked Nonprofit and an assessment that allows them evaluate where their use of networks and social media is along a continuum. They also created network maps for each country as well sharing examples using online networks using technology tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

We also had to create new content for the session and a unified theme, luckily Star Wars was easy to play with. During the session, we had to pull out some tricks of the trade to adjust in real-time when we behind our plan because of too much content. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange. In total, 19 organizations participated in 10 webinars.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it). When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Creating Change Conference. Creating Change Conference. The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2019 Creating Change Conference convenes in Detroit, Michigan January 23-27, 2019. Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Finance / @nysscpa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I had to learn how to create web pages, manage email, modem escape codes, navigate the Internet, and whatever came along. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Unfortunately, many founders or leaders skip creating one — which generally leads to fundraising frustrations and stalled services, among other problems. You might need to apply for a business loan at some point, especially if you want to buy a building or set up a thrift store. Evaluation Plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. What healthy habits will you create in 2016?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. It isn't black and white.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

It’s the deliberate practice of designing, building, and evolving the positive perception and experience of everyone inside and outside of your ecosystem. By collaborating with the entire organization, we refine what the brand means and build individual and collective confidence in how to operate within it.

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