Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Just A Little Content To Get Started . It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. Another option is to briefly share some content or a framework to kick off the participant knowledge sharing. Opening Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

Each month, we go deep into a practice step – both on the individual practitioner level as well as the organizational practice level. As the facilitator and SME, I provide some content, but participants do a lot of sharing and presenting as well. Slideshare how do i say it with charts from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

The book includes access to Katie’s research papers, vendor selection charts, and much more. You also get access to Katie’s monthly Measurement Hours where you can ask Katie questions. Katie’s e-books also come with a “Lifetime Content Warranty.” Purchase your copy right now !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Immediacy and response are key, even as short-form content proliferates. This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I stumbled across the Pomodoro technique which is very similar to time boxing (assigning discrete blocks of time to a particular task and using a timer), but the method also gives you some ways to prioritize work. Photo by TBN98.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

What content on the website is most popular? see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). A deliverable for this User Research technique might be a series of slides that answer the questions listed above along with any other questions that are relevant to the project. Content Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique. I particularly like the “Heat Chart” where you color code priority tasks. Michaela Monahan, Big Duck blog, discusses the technique of tracking your time. .” Staying curious keeps you going and avoid burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. I’ve written about these techniques here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Speak With Numbers Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! By integrating your fundraising tools and your CRM system, your communications team can use accurate donor data to individualize email content. Budget for expenses. Understand the Giver’s Journey. Direct mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This workshop was advertised as a crash course and I think packed enough content in there for 3 full days. That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time. When more and more people began mentioning Yemen online, their trending terms chart in Attentive.ly Your People Are Talking. Are You Listening?” Get it here: https://attentive.ly/listen.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Card sorts are a form of usability testing that help us understand how users group and label content. Simply put, it’s a matter of creating a “card” for each piece of content you plan to offer on your website and asking folks to stack the cards into groups and then apply a label to each group. Content Strategy. Methodology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time. Typically, I have two groups of participants and as the chart above indicates, this group is no different - except that I probably have a greater number of people in Group 2. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). I am also experimenting with techniques for network weaving across platforms and curating content related to effective practice of networked nonprofits.

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Forum One

MAY 30, 2024

Techniques that Create Credibility Clarity, authenticity, and inclusivity are essential for communicating trust effectively. Here are some techniques that we like to use: Feedback Loops Designing feedback mechanisms encourages open communication with audiences. And are you paying attention to all the right cues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. understand how to design and implement a social media experiment that enables listening, participation, content creation, or community building and is appropriate and realistic.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Utilizing infographics, charts, and other visual tools can help break down your nonprofit’s achievements and impact into digestible bits. Storytelling techniques Craft these stories with care, using narrative techniques that engage the emotions of your readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The content for the first face-to-face sessions was based on the workshops I’ve been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. And lots of peer support and connections. Participants Are The Content. Self-Select Delivery Style.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

But there is a slight error in that line of thinking as it restricts the progress that comes with adoption of new practices, techniques, and technology. Tactics such as blogging and sharing video content increase the effectiveness further. You know what I mean. Leveraging the web matters. Diversification is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). What do the experts say? I found this video interview of Robert Scoble with Howard Rheingold about Scoble’s curation techniques and tools.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2011

I’ll start off with the basics, but then we’ll get into some advanced techniques. If you are surprised to find traffic from a certain area, and see that people from that area have a high bounce rate & few pages per visit, then perhaps you can think of a way to better serve that audience with targeted content.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. The content is often seen as not being community-specific. To some extent, it's externally-driven. But that's only part of the story.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I review both fundraising and friendraising techniques and how to take them, to varying levels, online – from email solicitations and events to social media and websites. The e-mail is updated with a new story each month to keep the content and news fresh. Below is a chart of the campaign as of June 23, 2009. Send a box (total).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Unique Blog Readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. I had too much content. I knew I had too content. My blog commenters told me I had too much content in my initial draft. This was circa 1997. I arrived two hours early. Maybe not as many demos.

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