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. The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2016

The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success. is attention paid to establishing a positive culture for engagement, so that criticism is welcomed in a spirit of openness and shared learning without blaming or diminishing individuals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. Storify here ). I kicked off the morning session with a discussion on measuring impact with colleagues from VolunteerMatch – Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success." is attention paid to establishing a positive culture for engagement, so that criticism is welcomed in a spirit of openness and shared learning without blaming or diminishing individuals?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2015

The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success. is attention paid to establishing a positive culture for engagement, so that criticism is welcomed in a spirit of openness and shared learning without blaming or diminishing individuals?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success. is attention paid to establishing a positive culture for engagement, so that criticism is welcomed in a spirit of openness and shared learning without blaming or diminishing individuals?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2019

Your faculty and staff play a critical role in creating a culture of retention. n-ear) – noun: the architect, and engineer of retention strategies to facilitate the matriculation of students. Pro Tip: Defining success means bringing together retentioneers to determine what numbers are your institution’s measurement of success.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This supports a culture of accountability and keeps everyone on the same page. Facilitate relationships amongst your board members. Could you have a year-end celebration at a ball game with your volunteers? If you’d like to learn more about the 10 keys to an engaged board, try out his checklist and see how you measure up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. Practicing self-care is an abundance mindset.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” I want to lose 5 pounds.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. These kinds of participatory projects can actually de-motivate because participants can''t possibly measure up to the display model. Constrain the input, free the output. It''s complicated.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. 2018 Nonprofit Talent & Culture Summit. Apr 18 - 20.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we faced up to really measuring the results of our work? Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. It is very difficult to measure impact. Looking at Ebay process - can measure the transaction and get user reviews. Good or bad thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. Are there nonprofits that have a culture of placing Little Bets or affordable losses and learning from them? What are some examples?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And we have less donors than we’ve had before but the sizes of the gifts from those donors have been increasing, which is why giving overall has still not varied from about 2% of gross domestic product for as long as they’ve been measuring this since World War 2. But it’s a little bit like building a culture of philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

Some key themes: the need to focus on measurement for impact. celebrate and showcase the “de-centralized” successes in your community. charity:water has raised over $9 million using its crowd funding platform to encourage its supporters to raise money to celebrate their birthdays. I love serendipity! Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. Things aren't so bad when you take time to celebrate the small blessings in life! All engagements should be meaningful and contribute to the measurable outcomes you set upfront. The question.

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