Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

Mentoring 79

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I continue to serve on the advisory board of Leadership Learning Community and Wake.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. There are three major aspects of managing your volunteers: recruitment, training, and stewardship. The average volunteer retention rate is around 65%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Tags: technology training training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post takes a deeper dive into meeting and training icebreakers and check-ins. This post takes a deeper dive into meeting and training icebreakers and check-ins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are many learning theories and can be categorized in different ways: External: These theories take into account self-learning and learning in groups. This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism. Training Design' Here’s some examples.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

The workforce included a blend of long-term employees with a rich company, product/service and customer history; employees who had been at the company for five to seven years; and then new hires with a fresh perspective and keen sense of new technologies and techniques. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

The workforce included a blend of long-term employees with a rich company, product/service and customer history; employees who had been at the company for five to seven years; and then new hires with a fresh perspective and keen sense of new technologies and techniques. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

The workforce included a blend of long-term employees with a rich company, product/service and customer history; employees who had been at the company for five to seven years; and then new hires with a fresh perspective and keen sense of new technologies and techniques. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players.

Culture 52

Culture Effective Blended Companies 52

Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Predictive analytics is the use of data, statistical algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data. Once the association rolled-out the AI process and trained staff, it was then easy for MCA&F staff to see warning signals for members at risk of lapsing.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. tabling at events, community presentations, etc.)? Are you comfortable with writing persuasively (e.g., grant proposals, solicitation letters, etc.)? If yes, please describe your experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Machine learning models that make predictions to answer their questions usually need labeled training data. Labeled training datasets can be tricky to obtain and often require creativity and human labor to create them manually before any machine learning can happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

In 2016, I completed my work as facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. It is also a pivotal year for many community foundations as they consider whether to ramp up or wind down giving day initiatives in their communities.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to Implement Online Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and Engage your Community by Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Effective Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

How would they engage enough of the global development community to test the prototype, and after that how would they get people to actually use it? The overarching objective of the toolkit is to increase the innovation capacity of development practitioners.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Policy Technique News 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Keys to Datamaking Success Many of the tools and techniques that we have learned about data design and collection continue to be relevant in datamaking, such as: Ask clear questions and prioritize which data points, or combinations of data points, are most relevant to answering the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S., I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Effective Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Time Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit sector is at the heart of helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change and is working across sectors to innovate new ways to address it. Protect the Worst-Affected Communities. Innovate Solutions to Address the Crisis.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Gyrus Systems , a leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) vendor, announced today it has been selected as a 2017 Gamification Watch List company by Training Industry.com. “These organizations excel in many technologies, ranging from training simulations and serious games to leaderboards and badging.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Time Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Much of this has to do with how people appreciate each other as well as building a sense of community, followed by activities and supporting policies in the workplace.

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