Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Call this “social change 2.0”. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed. Here are some tips.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Rapid advances in technology and modern workforce needs are transforming the way, workforce learning & training is delivered and training courses are created. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. Mobile learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. Pivot tables will change your life. Don’t waste your time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation.

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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.”

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. It can also evaluate your campaigns and programs to find the most successful strategies for you to use to fundraise more efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session designing and delivering effective training with John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard on March 14th at 10:30 am. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th. This will be my 14th Nonprofit Technology Conference. No wonder it always feels like a family reunion. More about the session here.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

In the ever-changing climate of business, it is vital that organizational members are able to adapt to their surroundings. This will also allow the new employee to evaluate past ventures with a new eye and establish any possible shortcomings, shaping an environment where the organization can actually learn from their previous mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

People and organizations that work on social change are not immune. The points include: 1) notice the situation; 2) evaluate the situation; 3) Respond to the situation. The books is filled with techniques and best practices for getting people to be more civil online and how to handle the people that just can’t be civilized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I didn’t do a complete unplug, as we’re so dependent on the Internet for information in navigate our daily lives, which is a huge change since I first got online in 1993. And, now with those beautiful sunsets behind me, I look ahead to 2015. I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change. Training Design. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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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. We had a lot of content and process to go through during the two-day training. I do not speak Spanish.

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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. These will be paid online trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Then I build out the content and discussion questions. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change. Their impact is to make the world a better place.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It takes a bit of mindset change as you have to focus on your work environment more carefully with a visual eye and suddenly see Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter posts you have never seen before. Smartphones, while they are so much better than ever, still have limitations. Experiment.

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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?

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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.” Get Training : NTEN is offering regular webinars on the topic of how nonprofits can effectively use data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Get Training : Data for Good is an association for people who work in nonprofit and data and offers the “ Do Good Data University “ where you find excellent webinars on a variety topics. Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. Will we ever move away from the either/or mindset – from Jdeancoffey.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As a teenager, asserting my independence, my friends and I would take in the train to catch late night showings of Laser Floyd in their Rose planetarium. Also, familiarity with game design techniques, and tools, and exercises, and processes. Then there’s design thinking - lots of design thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. DoSomething.Org: A Data-Driven Nonprofit In Action.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated.

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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.

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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?? Leave a Comment.

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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'

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

1,900 of community members surveyed (6 percent of community) have reported negative effects on the overall environment due to this prolonged drought that is a result of climate change (SOURCE NAME, DATE). Include the task description, role responsible, start date, completion date, evaluation that the activity is completed.

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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.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Attend this session and walk away with success stories and hands-on techniques that will change how you think about the creative process. This interactive session will explore how to evaluate when your organization has a people problem, not a technology problem, and what to do about it. Social Media.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. One last thought on evaluation. Tags: evaluation Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects design participatory museum.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

COVID-19 abruptly changed that. One leader at Candid wisely uses the progressive stack method , a technique to prioritize voices less-heard in team meetings. A check-in generator is an easy way to change up questions from meeting to meeting. As of March 2020, I had never worked from home—not for a single day.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Keynote presentations, workshops, roundtable sessions, and interactive forums will cover a variety of topics across nine training tracks. The event will also include breakout sessions where you can share data and strategies to evaluate your mid-level program. The result is often greater leadership and innovation.

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