Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. Here’s some techniques where you can incorporate network visualization to help you be intentional about using your professional network for learning: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Back in 2017, we could see that business was changing. Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association, will share how APA used these techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. Kimberly Pendo AI is rapidly changing the world, and the non-profit sector is no exception.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

As our users’ lives have dramatically changed, our approach to understanding them must also change. Audience research is changing—along with a changing world—to help us on our quest to better understand audience behavior, needs, frustrations, and successes and ensure products and services are successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. (Early bird registration ends on July 31 and scholarship information is here. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

While the theme remained the same – sponsor a homeless animal – the options changed. What techniques are you using to increase engagement with follow-up emails? All of these effectively conveyed the urgency of the need. 5) Same theme. Different options. An animal welfare organization sent me two emails around Valentine’s Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Attracts new supporters and partners with information about how they can help change the world. Investing in marketing helps you build a foundation for growth, community engagement, and impactful change. Expands visibility and credibility in the community by showing your impact.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Be willing to change your decisions. Explain how a change will affect employee's feelings before, during and after the change is implemented. End every meeting with a follow-up To Do list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout provides a practical roadmap for getting better results from mission-based, social change work by paying closer attention to individual and organizational well-being.

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Byte Technology

JULY 16, 2021

This technique combines frequently used images into one image file, thus reducing the number of HTTP demands needed to download the web page. . An exception of this is when it has changed since the previous cache. Reduce the original size of the image using any editor of your choice. Add images into CSS Sprites.

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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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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Wouldn’t it be great if there were some tools or techniques we could use to reduce our experiences with them? It’s also a collaborative technique to engage subject matter experts in identification of the true root cause of the problem. Something you thought you fixed keeps having errors? These are frustrating situations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2019

By incorporating a unique and strategic combination of digital strategy, tactics and techniques, the Care2 team engaged millions of people around this critical issue via online petitions, social media and other digital channels. The timely campaign also helped drive real political change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Aligning your management team with your company's goals and reiterating your values through various communication channels. Encouragement. Promoting and rewarding team collaboration instead of competition. Complacency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

As technology continues to advance, new fundraising techniques and trends are emerging. Technology has changed a lot since the days of going door to door to collect. However, as we look toward the future, it’s crucial to change with the times. 1) Virtual and Augmented Reality for Donations.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Autumn brings more than a colorful display of leaves changing, though. Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change by Beth Kanter and Allison H. From So What?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight.  of ChatGPT last December. imagine indeed… Join me and my colleague, Hiram Cuevas of St.

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CauseVox

MARCH 24, 2022

Something needs to change, but you don’t know where to start. Filmmaker and storytelling expert, Rain Bennett, will walk you through how to utilize the power of storytelling via video as a key marketing technique to help hook your audience fast, while keeping them engaged for the long haul. You’re frustrated and tired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The discussion about the recent changes on Facebook has focused mostly around what it means for individuals, particularly the tension between openness and privacy. Many people are wondering what it means for nonprofit brands using Facebook as one of their marketing channels. Flickr Photo by Lululemon.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2022

Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Be willing to change your decisions. Explain how a change will affect employee's feelings before, during and after the change is implemented. End every meeting with a follow-up To Do list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute. I admit it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Particularly for business leaders, the book offers easy-to-follow lessons on l earning to lead with positivity for effective change throughout your team and organization. The Negativity Fast is an inspiring new approach to improving your outlook, leadership techniques, resilience, and productivity.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Sage Nonprofit Solutions I've been asked to present a session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference on "Technical Management Techniques for Managers". Investigate and define operational changes that could prevent the crisis from reoccurring.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

We sat down with Diane Remin, the Founder and President of MajorDonors.com , to discuss techniques on making an ask and how major gift work has transitioned online as a result of the pandemic. Technique 1: Ask Donor For A Specific Amount of Money. Technique 2: The Clueless Close. The second technique is the clueless close.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival by Jeff Ramos.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Donorbox

JULY 9, 2021

The Covid Pandemic changed that, and digital fundraising became a lifesaver for many nonprofits. With new opportunities to reach a larger audience, and the ability to automate and integrate campaigns and stewardship techniques, nonprofits learned new ways to reach a new […].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader : Respond to questions quickly and fully. Be willing to change your decisions. Explain how a change will affect employee's feelings before, during and after the change is implemented. End every meeting with a follow-up To Do list.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Every change, every burst of creativity, begins with the identification of a problem or opportunity that somebody finds meaningful. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes. Do you have one in place?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Who would have thought a simple meal could change a family’s life? Inside these walls, 28 women have found the courage to start school to prepare themselves for the future and change their lives so they never have to go back to their abuser. Your nonprofit is simply the conduit to allow people to change lives.

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