Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

The Network Impact team spent 18 months consulting with civic tech thought leaders and offering technical assistance to Knight Foundation grantees focused on assessing the impact of their technologies. When we asked Code for America team to summarize the need they see in the field, they responded, “The civic tech field is growing rapidly.

Metrics 50

Metrics Method Tech Government 50

Candid

JULY 5, 2023

COVID-19 abruptly changed that. Here are five tips to build more engaged remote teams. Align on team norms Building awareness of individual styles and preferences sets the stage for team alignment on shared norms and behaviors. A check-in generator is an easy way to change up questions from meeting to meeting.

Team 105

Team Build Tips Exercise 105

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." It means quantifying the results of your work to prove that your organization is changing lives for the better. Sounds good, but it is hard to do.

Data 67

Data Hunger Evaluation Analytics 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder?

Public 103

Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

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.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future. So you may be asking yourself where is the linkage to learning programs?

Learning 61

Learning Organization Statistics Cleveland 61

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

Nonprofit, business, people, team, board, community, tech, emergent, servant, etc. Just as you and your team run critical day-to-day nonprofit functions, you can practice Brand Leadership to contribute to a smooth, impactful operation imbued with energy, creativity, resilience, and sustainability. When not done well?

Leadership 208

Leadership Strategy Nonprofit Collaboration 208

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” The team works on a practical project that take less than four weeks to complete. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits.

Data 109

Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The team works on a practical project that take less than four weeks to complete. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

Data 107

Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Retention rate (of participants, team captains, team members). Returning fundraisers generally raise more money, especially team captains. Changes to communication strategies and messaging can remedy this oversight. Cultivate teams and team captains. Teams out-fundraise individuals in peer-to-peer events.

Metrics 42

Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

The leadership changed. The goals changed. So it’s not just what’s your baseline, but it’s also, how do you hope to actually change the world in a grand way? . Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. Think of yourself.

People 77

People Community Video Podcast 77

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s important your fundraising team sets up a: . Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Always invite prospective donors to join you in changing the world.

Campaign 98

Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

Question 49

Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” 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.

Iowa 50

Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I met Julie almost ten years ago, when she was leading the Agents of Change project at the Ontario Science Center , and I have admired her ever since. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. institutional change design guestpost'

Place 52

Place Museum Environment Problem 52

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. The Value Proposition - Purposeful Action in a Changing World. The Value Proposition - Purposeful Action in a Changing World. Finance / @nysscpa.

Calendar 111

Calendar Conference Las Vegas San Diego 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. Bob concurs. &# DoSomething.Org understands the value of data-driven social change and has backed that up by creating a “data team&# of three staff people. differently as DoSomething.Org has done.

Culture 115

Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity. First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. No more is it the volumes of people helped, but the real lives changed. Here's a few examples. Interesting twist on "impact."

Comment 50

Comment Social Media Charity Trend 50

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

To stay up to date with current trends and best practices, my team and I read various industry blogs and websites about both User Experience and Nonprofit Marketing. Our team has been working on ways to emphasize that content is king and we have some tips and techniques to share to help your organization evaluate and adapt your content.

Content 27

Content Technique Sound Evaluation 27

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

But several experiences and smart people have changed my perspective on this, and that's what this post is about. Program staff invent guerrilla marketing techniques, run the photobooths and program evaluations, and send out the follow-up emails. As director, I post, tweet, and talk with visitors along with the rest of my team.

Job 51

Job Marketing Difference Museum 51

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. Evaluation. logs and evaluation forms â??

Knowledge 60

Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

Audience 47

Audience Museum Participatory History 47

NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

Roles 65

Roles Project Process Management 65

NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. Are you up-to-date on the latest tactics and techniques in your area of focus? In order to maker sure your content matches your stakeholders interests, you must track activity and make changes based on that data.

Communication 57

Communication Online DC Wiki 57

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. What your team might not realize, however, is that each of your separate digital marketing efforts should actively support the others. It all comes full circle. Phase 2: The Planning Stage.

Digital 98

Digital Strategy Create Phase 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.”

Social Media 97

Social Media Train Training Network 97

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls. Don't Praise.

Evaluation 54

Evaluation Mentoring Kansas City Kansas 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

. - Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. The papers points out the benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including peer-to-peer learning, changed attitude toward intellectual property, skills valued in the modern workplace, etc.

Participatory 50

Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010 Build A Strong Team. Be An Effective Team Member. Its somewhat difficult to find a copy of Price Pritchetts 1992 handbook called, The Team Member Handbook For Teamwork, but if you do locate a copy, it provides you good, practical, useful information. Youll learn as a manager how to build a strong team.

Team 40

Team Effective Build Mentoring 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Be An Effective Team Member.

Skills 40

Skills Leadership Team Build 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 17, 2010

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Know When To Change Your Decision Leaders make decisions. Good leaders are willing to modify their decisions as changing circumstances and data dictate. Often, circumstances change and new information becomes available after a decision has been made. In fact, just the opposite is true. Don't Praise.

Change 44

Change Mentoring Kansas City Kansas 44

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Examine major gift planning in the context of current economic conditions, changes in donor populations and increased competition for the charitable dollar. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Agents of Change Summit. Agents of Change Summit.

Calendar 177

Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. Convene with thought leaders in social change from around the world. Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. State/Local. Affect Conf / Portland, OR / Less than $200.

Conference 111

Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We so frequently over-focus on our own institutions' problems, and Jane and her cohorts in Pittsburgh are thinking much more expansively about their collective power to make positive change in their community. The team defines a "successful" visitor experience as one that is both active and engaged (as opposed to passive and disinterested).

Reflection 20

Reflection Research Question Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. " What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. Read Allison Fine's Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age (I reviewed here ).

Case Study 50

Case Study Social Network Philippines Advice 50

The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

The campaign’s results will be evaluated throughout the first half of 2024. The changes in channel use for appealing to younger donors are being matched by modifications in messaging, similar to what the organization is seeing within its SMS efforts. That might be changing. Another charter public school, the Washington, D.C.-based

Technique 59

Technique Donor United States Rate 59