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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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I've charted those – so I know when they occur). Have any techniques to add to this list?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Illustrate the concrete change created by donor support. Creating an always-on text-to-give campaign for impulse donations. For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Use time-limited offers to create urgency.

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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? These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Do you have a preferred method? What do you want to learn from working together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. 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. I also created a stand up, sit down exercise.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Unfortunately, many founders or leaders skip creating one — which generally leads to fundraising frustrations and stalled services, among other problems. If your nonprofit is just getting started, explain your vision and why you are creating your organization. Management and Organizational Charts. Use only text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

But being a nonprofit data is not just about being an Excel ninja, it is also about visualizing data and being a chart master. When Ann told me she has lots of secrets and time saving tips for charts and offered to write this guest post, I was thrilled. Charts can be one of your strongest communication tools. Secret #10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

All the technique, training, and "PowerPoint" tricks are useless if the talk doesn't come from your gut, from your heart and soul. His personal web site has some good tips on creating , delivering , and slide design. it's definitely how I begin and create and it's in "analog mode."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context.

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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. The map overlay, the second item on the list of reports , is both a fun visualization and can give you important insights about your visitors. If you click on the US in the map, you can drill down to a view of traffic by state.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Many of the participants lived blogged the sessions and the notes created are good content for the wiki. I think after the first day's focus on strategy, people were very much interested in getting into the techniques, tactics, and tools. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Setting up a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. What's your strategy map? My problem now is that I don't do a lot of processing with a pen or marker/flip chart anymore -- but I was standing up there, so I jotted some notes down on my moleskin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

It is sort of like the difference between a play that is totally scripted and doing an improv scene where actors know the general narrative but the specific lines are spontaneous and created on the spot. (2) In addition, Sinatra mentions that figuring out their ‘no matter what’ messages was important to mapped out in advance.

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