Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The product of this learning journey, Just In Time: Beyond-the-Hype Potential of E-Learning , has just been published. Based on a year of conversations with more than 100 leading thinkers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, this report explores the state of e-learning and the potential it offers beyond the confines of formal education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The video above shows the whole room discussing an important Networked Nonprofit concept, simplicity (focus on what you do best and network the rest.). From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Here’s how it was used during Day 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. There are different formats that you can use to make it more interactive: panel discussion, or interview experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2018

What’s more, there is a large disconnect, for example, between what customers want to discuss in the first sales call versus what sales reps typically cover, according to a 2016 HubSpot Sales Perception Study. It’ll teach you how to leverage the power of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to consistently make extraordinary sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . It can serve as an anchor for additional conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. My job was the network weaver. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. The day ended with a conversational keynote with Tony Hsieh on Zappos culture of happiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. 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.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

z International Foundation discussing Millennial Leadership. They discarded whatever information or techniques that weren''t helpful. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. We''re attending virtually through the livestream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector. She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

In workshops, it is important to have a full group discussion about people's concerns about social media and a discussion about organizational readiness. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. They were able to join the discussion in our Twitter channel.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. The list goes on and on, depending on what you're trying to accomplish (and who your audience is!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Discussions on how to improve results are rarely part of staff meetings. The organizational dashboard is shared across departments and there is a process for analyzing, discussing, and applying results. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

" The discussion reminded of the one I heard in the UK and read later on the Circuit Riders list " Is Open Source Fair Trade for Nonprofits ?" Or, has this issue already been discussed in this context? How to engage people in valuable conversation? What are the techniques for conversational weaving?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. I am teaching two more sessions.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Some of the key changes we see are that there are new tools and techniques that allow people with common interests to find each other and form virtual communities around these common interests. discussions you sponsored last week. That's where we think TechSoup comes into the picture. We have 100's of thousands of readers of TechSoup.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attendees can participate in planting sessions, learn about gardening techniques, and contribute to the maintenance of community gardens. Arts-based nonprofits can employ local artists to teach any number of art forms; environmental nonprofits can teach gardening; food pantries can host cooking classes; the possibilities are endless!

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. It will bring together the practitioners, scientists and creative minds of behavior change to discuss the science and technology of change. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. 2016 Nonprofit Organizations Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

In episode two of the new Web Courseworks podcast, Managing eLearning , Dr. Jon Aleckson & Matt Harpold sit down with Jeffrey Gorton , author of “ The Seven Secrets to Managing Remote Employees ” to discuss the source of inspiration for the book, highlight some of the major themes, and walk through the seven steps. Availability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. The maps are made by community members. Get a hand wireless mic.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. Let’s keep the conversation going. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Let us discuss, my friends. Ooh, y’all had some great job. I’m jelly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Global Conversations. Ugandan Prime Minister @AmamaMbabazi is the most conversational world leader with 96% of his tweets being @replies to other Twitter users.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Understand the tenants of website conversion rate optimization and user-experience as it pertains to online donation pages and forms; 2. Jacobwith, will teach you advanced storytelling techniques to easily combine your “money story” with impact stories about real people. What You’ll Learn: 1. 1:15-2:15pm CST.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Teach something new to your team 24. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Dont delay tough conversations 65. Make conversation with your team. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Then, call a meeting to discuss those solutions. Be decisive 20.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Make conversation with your team. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Thursday, September 23, 2010 How Sports (Or Band) Can Make You A Better Leader LinkedIn members continue to offer their insights on my recent discussion question about whether playing high school and/or college sports can help to make you a better business leader. I particularly found the following insightful from a discussion participant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Teaching in an international context. When teaching in different contexts, especially outside of the US, you need to make some adjustments to your context. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. There was a very productive conversation. No wonder I am still tired!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Let the discussion sink in. Dont rehash the discussion later. Make conversation with your team. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Then, call a meeting to discuss those solutions. Then, call a meeting to have a discussion. You made your point.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

Earlier this year, various discussion groups on the social media site LinkedIn helped me build a list of favorite leadership books. Make conversation with your team. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Then, call a meeting to discuss those solutions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened. If not, teach him what he needs to do differently to avoid the mistake from reoccurring. Make conversation with your team. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Then, call a meeting to discuss those solutions.

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