Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? Use time-limited offers to create urgency. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity? What motivates instant digital engagement and gifts?

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . Get Registered Now for Free.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

In other words, by the time you are actually sitting in front of a prospect , you should have rehearsed the many paths the conversation could take MANY times before. The conversation will flow more naturally. Show them that their input in the conversation is truly valuable (more on that in the next step).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Connect with them ahead of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The last time I shared a plenary stage with Marcelo Iniarra was in 2014 at the International Fundraising Congress where he rode a bicycle on stage! Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. At the same time, trust in institutions is fading. ” The unofficial title was “Beth and the Two Marcelos.”

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Learning Donor Online Fundraising 86

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. You, as the instructor, will learn along with them because you are not the one talking the whole time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. I had the pleasure of designing this session with Will Coley – who interviewed the best content curators in the world and get them share their best practices.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But bottom line is we want to hear from you because we’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. You can also use Twitter. But say hi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

As Stephen Downes notes, being a super learner takes time and practice. For this screencast, I conducted several interviews lasting approximately 50 minutes. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. I noted the start time and end time. I used a hybrid of his approach.

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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. Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews. Are you comfortable with managing conflicts or difficult conversations?

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Strategy Fundraising Skills Sample 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques. Timing is running out.

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Cambodia Blogger Conversation Global 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic. In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. Curation tools like Scoop.It

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Social Media Content Practice New York City 107

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Our conversation began with my asking Temra, "How are women changing the way we eat?" Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 107

Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

That’s because surveys are often not well-constructed; they only provide self-report data; and they often are only capturing data from one point in time. Conversely, a research study is a process used to answer complex questions or to prove or disprove hypotheses. Others yet are capable of either or both techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

In general, they tend to wait until the kinks in the platform are worked out and there is less risk involved investing staff time. The following is framed with one disclaimer: We’re in the days and this could all change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef.

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Case Study Social Media Studies Integration 98

.orgSource

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No matter how much marketing techniques evolve, that equation doesn’t change. In an interview for our Book Association 4.0: Generative AI promises to add conversation, depth, and individualized support to those interactions across a variety of areas. Every member experience with your brand is a plus or a minus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

As part of the planning, it might be a good idea to have the slides so participants can organize their thoughts and prepare, but then transform it into an conversation by ditching the slides for the actual webinar. 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

MARCH 28, 2013

Says Paull Young from charity:water, “ You can set it up in minutes, but it is one-time deal. The negative is it’s a one off shot — you just get one moment for the tweet to go everywhere, as opposed to tweets appearing over time as would happen with more traditional outreach. Shonali Burke has a terrific tip.

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Social Media Integration Tools Tips 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Micro conversions or steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. Others have a different take.

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Story Platform Build Organization 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. No matter the approach, it is useful to have a structured approach and track trends over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. Then I interviewed them. It was very informative, judging from the conversation and the tweets. One insight is that the denial stage is about the perceived lack of time to collect and analyze data.

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Reflection Data Slides Exercise 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0 Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr.

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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. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. As someone with limited time and attention, I don't want to think about how much money to donate. s hard to say no to it."

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Analysis Reflection Experiment Time 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

He started this group blog called " Great Governance " to host a conversation and collect ideas from other people. I think you need to have a discussion about how would the use of social media tools make that time more effective? Face-to-face meetings have something over online communication: Inspiration.

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Social Media Government Skype Media 61

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. Time spent on the site. See the graph to the right for how different Research techniques might be triangulated in a project. Surveys and Interviews.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns. If you don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It can serve as an anchor for additional conversations.

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Social Media Training Train Media 95

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times. We’re honored to support the process towards justice and accountability at this critical time in Guatemala’s history.

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International Guatemala Colombia Analysis 150

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It was great to see long-time colleague from NPower Seattle Peg Giffels who I met ten years ago when she first joined the staff. I’ve asked this question before, but this is the first time I had so many stories that it was hard to narrow it down to a few. Use Twitter to Bring More People Into The Conversation.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

So, when we talk about social media and being open and embracing the conversation, one of the most comment questions that comes up is: To what extent do you need to moderate the discussion in a socnet space or blog so it isn't antithetical to your mission? Great Darren Rowse Problogger Interview by Guy on Sun. by Ken Fischer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week Kivi wrote about “ newsjacking ” the technique of piggy backing on a crisis to get more media attention. I probably checked Komen’s Twitter and Facebook pages 20 times Tuesday night, pleading with them in my head to say something to their supporters. ” Read her analysis. And it worked!

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Causes Cancer Kentucky Dallas 128

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.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111