Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The four key questions are: What data to collect? How to collect data? Making meaning. Communicating Results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Share in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. ” - Drawing People Out: After you listen and paraphrase, you ask open-ended questions to draw people out. ”Tell me more …” is one of several identified in the book. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. Yet foundation staff charged with organizational learning responsibilities are still charting a new course in our field.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. Your answers to these key questions will further refine your efforts and increase your fundraising returns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Are you required to measure?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Whether it''s feedback, questions, or general conversation, these calls and all that you share on them help us ensure we are focused on the right priorities and have consistent, open opportunities to connect directly with you. Below is a full report from topics covered on the Town Hall call and questions raised from participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? I also ask if they have questions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

" So in the spirit of transparency, here's my personal experience with results reporting (note: this is entirely my own experience with measuring the results of my work, and is not reflective of TechSoup's impact and results measurements overall). That's a hard question to answer. Image 1 : Ken Berger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . The potential donor turns into a donor after evaluating their options and donating to the organization. Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand. Online Fundraising Platforms: 12 Questions Before You Buy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Madeleine shared a copy of the network health scorecard , a diagnostic tool that networks can use to reflect on how to improve.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

Instead, I'd like to see us asking broader questions about process, like: How do different people arbitrate the value of a piece of art, a historical artifact, or a piece of scientific evidence? One prototype is based on the Billboard Top 10 charts for pop music. It's what keeps curators curators and the public public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify. This helps to make connections.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

" So in the spirit of transparency, here's my personal experience with results reporting (note: this is entirely my own experience with measuring the results of my work, and is not reflective of TechSoup's impact and results measurements overall). That's a hard question to answer. Image 1 : Ken Berger.

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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. Return on Investment.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation. We candidly share frontline experiences, reflect deeply on our impact and find the network and meaning we need to do transformational work. Social Value International / Atlanta, GA / $225.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

This isn’t a trick question, but it is a tricky one. GuideStar’s mantra for evaluating nonprofits has always been “You have to compare apples to apples.” The difficulty of evaluating nonprofit effectiveness is always in the back of my mind as I develop and edit content for GuideStar’s Web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment. I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel. Unique Readers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

As James comments in the attached podcast (scroll down), Shelley’s team did something that he thought was “too hard” to do in his work—tackle the effect of crowds on the subjective question of art evaluation. It would be more correct to compare it to data visualizations like tag clouds or spark charts.

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