Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. The ideas, tips, and tricks are grounded in adult learning theory, but the book is very practical. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix. One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. They start this chapter by stating the word "change" has five different meanings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report is written for funders and those on the ground doing the work in the context of networks, although it doesn’t go deep into practice. Metrics can help, and building them into organizational culture can be facilitated by having someone with responsibilities to make it happen – and to steep others in the new practices.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating the webinar, A Cooperative Approach to Web Design. During the webinar, we first heard from Elliot Harmon , who highlighted a few key ideas about web design previously discussed in his chapter of Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals.

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Design Web Internet Chapter 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Then comes the difficult part – identifying what “associated” metrics from social, email, and your web site that you need to collect. What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The most interesting question was "What should funders think about to encourage effective social media strategy best practice?" Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. It will also include some practical advice about working more like clouds than towers. We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI.

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Learning Technique Metrics ROI 50

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. Participants will consider the promising practices, strategies, and approaches being pursued in the field and in philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. .”

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

It works because: Your supporters can customize their donation pages to reflect their own relationship with your mission. Step 2: Facilitate donation pages. This crowd-pleasing event is successful ly used by Big Brothers Big Sisters chapters all over the United States. What’s the central theme?

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Guide Fundraising Campaign Software 98

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And then we’ll hone in on some best practices that you and your teams can apply specifically to leverage your board members in your fundraising activity in a way that excites and energizes them. So a little bit more about me very quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. And so their job is a reflection of that. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. And so we had our.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So that is what we explore in depth in our certificate in philanthropic psychology at our institute, how can we, through fundraising in the charitable sector, facilitate the love that people can have, not only for those easily lovable, but also for the people that might be most difficult for us to love. So here is an example from a donor.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. For example, imagine you are creating a multi-chapter planning document. Our final task involved emailing a word document to the convenors. But wikis are a very specific tool.

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