Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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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. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s in our org charts. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways. Can you read a chart? And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. Add to that agility and empathy.)

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. There are two additional user research techniques that we’ll cover in the next couple of posts: Usability Testing and Personas. What’s Next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Your workshop encouraged us to devise a strategy for using social media, and to tease out what these tools could really mean to our mission, vision, and constituencies -- rather than just, "hurry up and get your org up on Twitter!" Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Setting up a blog.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The tools and techniques that worked for us when we were seven people in a room don't work for twenty. There's an org chart. Now, our staff is three times the size it was five years ago. This growth has strained our internal ability to collaborate in two ways: Sometimes, we fail because we are too collaborative.

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