Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

One of the topics the peer learning group took a deep dive into was selecting the right chart and techniques offered by nonprofit data nerds Stephanie Evergreen (who write a guest post on how to create great graphs ) and Anne Emery’s tips on how to avoid boring bar charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Offer Training in Conflict Management To Social Media Professionals: The book describes techniques for conflict management and how to respond in various situations, but organizing a training for staff that includes role play and simulations to practice these skills is also important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

Part 11: Additional Resources for Nonprofits. ” That means as new tools and techniques become available, she updates the material and you get revised content at no charge. Part 10: Checklist for the Measurement Process. The book is $101 , and at first glance you might think that is a lot to pay for a book. But it isn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

They capture their discussion by taking notes on the “tablecloths,” (in this case, it is flip chart paper). One technique is to weave self-care into your workday . Fires are urgent but unimportant activities that are not a part of your organization’s plan, but require a resource investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource. One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone. It is good to begin with low-risk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. (I’ve charted those – so I know when they occur). Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Has your organization solved the big challenge of lack of skills, resources, or staff to do impact measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

I've been accumulating resources about how to make presentations better (more interactive). All the technique, training, and "PowerPoint" tricks are useless if the talk doesn't come from your gut, from your heart and soul. Gene Zelazny is the author of "Say It With Charts" and director of Visual Communication for McKensey and Company.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

In the nonprofit sector, time is our most valuable resource. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I’ve charted myself according to times when I reach peak levels of concentration and try as much as can to schedule tasks require it. Photo by hmcotterill. Photo by TBN98.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. Because I am developing some material for upcoming training workshops this month and next, I’ve been on the prowl for useful and practice resources for content marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. I feel really inspired!

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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. The focus can involve application of resources, or actually reducing resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. .” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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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. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

You'll find lots of great resources over at Katrin's web site, mobileactive. It was great to do at a Spitfire session and discuss how social media integrates with the Smart Chart. The next day, I did a session on how to think strategically about your social media. Pete Stauffer. (In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

They have also provided resources for nonprofits to learn how to use tools to get feedback in t he Feedback Commons or the DIY Toolkit , and join GlobalGiving to earn points (which leads to more funding!) What other online resources are valuable to help you Listen, Act, Learn and Repeat? Organize your program data so it is accessible.

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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

JUNE 28, 2016

You can find the resources here. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques. Each table had some markers and flip chart paper (“table cloths”) so participants could take notes. We did several rotations and the discussions generated many ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

As chair of the chart committee, I had originally diagrammed this concept as the rungs of the ladder of engagement - see it here. And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. . How to think like a social instructional designer.

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MAY 1, 2023

Your nonprofit business plan helps you figure out the direction for your nonprofit, the resources you need, and the shortest path to success. What resources do you have and what resources will you need? Management and Organizational Charts. Break up the sections for easy reading, and use graphs and charts where you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

4) There isn't a place inside of the virtual world where you can easily post the agenda and I haven't found a virtual flip chart yet. I've always had chat as a back channel to a conference call and used it to summarize key points as a sort of electronic flip chart. This gets me back to wanting that virtual flip chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

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. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". Click to see larger diagram.

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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! If you’re looking for more information about nonprofit fundraising or donation software, check out these additional resources: . Budget for expenses. Understand the Giver’s Journey. The Giver’s Journey.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. Content Curation on Twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

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) Also, some new types of questions about training and education approaches for nonprofits and specific tips for under-resourced nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2012

But I also love using those pens for visualization techniques and especially to sketch out charts and graphs. I did a deep dive on data visualization techniques while working on a chapter of my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , with co-author KD Paine. That’s when I heard about the book, “ I Love Charts.”

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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. Below is a chart of the campaign as of June 23, 2009. Resources List. Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009. Join CMMB Facebook group. 534 (increase from 128).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Chart Your Course webinars available on demand To get started, it helps to have in mind a problem you think might be solved by AI. Leveraging techniques he and his “Whiz Kids” first practiced in the Pacific Theater of WWII, McNamara devised a data-lead strategy for the commitment of American troops and materiel in Vietnam.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. 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. I also like to practice my storytelling skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. For example, the heading of a bar chart can state the specific interpretation that you want your audience to see, making it unnecessary to go into great detail about the data. Here are some great (cheap) resources for stock photography, illustration, and infographics: iStock.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. For example, the heading of a bar chart can state the specific interpretation that you want your audience to see, making it unnecessary to go into great detail about the data. Here are some great (cheap) resources for stock photography, illustration, and infographics: iStock.

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