The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

People with this way of thinking tend to see challenges as opportunities, embrace failure as steppingstones to success, and persist in the face of obstacles. This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. What Is Growth? That’s the growth mindset.

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Structure Exercise Challenge Skills 105

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. A company is only as good as its people.

Leadership 90

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 90

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage.

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Advice Course Associations Change 170

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I Sponsor, Sponsor, Sponsor!

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Open Source Sponsor Tech Conversation 111

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. A company is only as good as its people.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2022

Intimate knowledge of your nonprofit is a cornerstone of your communications strategy. Yet extensive knowledge also hinders communication when your messaging frames only the trees and forgets to show the forest. Your communications need to provide information about your organization to people who are only marginally familiar with it.

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Marketing Strategy Impact Exercise 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.” He then went on to note that we run museums with the hopes of being supported by philanthropy, when in fact we could have a product that people want. As I said last week, there are people out there who could like you.

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Museum Audience Conversation Associations 30

M+R

MAY 31, 2024

Right now, people search for information on Google, which enables Google to make money off of search ads. If chatGPT can crawl the web and summarize its collective knowledge, why visit any individual website? This allows Google to automatically optimize your bidding to maximize conversions or to a particular ROAS.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the outdated model that worked well at one time—identifying a problem and creating a program designed to solve it—is giving way to new, muti-sector approaches to create public value.” Create a culture of knowledge sharing. Involve people closest to the problem. Make conversations transparent.

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Government Chapter Case Study Problem 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2021

There was comfort in this knowledge. . Conversation after conversation led to the same conclusion: We were exhausted yet committed to sharing our truths with the hopes that they would inspire change. . Almost a year later, the book continues to resonate with so many people. I was clearly not alone.

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Leadership Fundraising Nonprofit Director 139

Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Believe the hype, people, Salesforce Genie is a massive game-changer for institutions throughout the broader ecosystem. These efficiencies are made possible in part by intelligent meta tags and defined escalations that are configurable and able to pull the right people into the right channels to start the right conversations.

Education 92

Education Student Org Hype 92

sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

Or it can be your research and conversations to confirm the dedication to a shared mission. And yet, there is often a layer between that data and the practicality of reaching people with food insecurity, or reducing recidivism, or providing educational art programs. Grantees need you to be transparent, knowledgeable, and responsive.

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Philanthropy Impact Trend Grant 75

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The team of people currently working on the proposal for this new platform, asked me to help share some context about the role of Community Managers that could be included in the proposal narrative for funders who may be unfamiliar with community building best practices. And, as a displaced Oregonian myself (I will make it home one day!),

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Community Management Proposal Roles 198

Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Candid : What would you like people to know about your services and how you view your role in the community? The self-service model of public libraries allows individuals to explore at their own pace, and a librarian like me can help guide the process by sharing vetted tools and resources and how to maximize their impact.

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Library Grant Local Roles 98

Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

SXSW EDU is more focused to educators, government and people working in the ed space. . With fundraising and technology at the forefront of the conversation, we’ll explore best practices and learn how to leverage the latest technology to raise more. Audience size : 15,000 (SXSW EDU); 37,000 (SXSW). And, everyone else.

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Conference Nonprofit Americorp Fort Worth 122

.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Understand the Context Before considering Jane and Amy’s ideas, it’s helpful to have some context about this bot that so effortlessly hooks users into time-melting conversations. ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. A single model can cost millions of dollars.

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Model Language Images Associations 221

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Enslaved people were so disrespected that those who enslaved them didn’t even tell them that they were free for months after the South had surrendered. So, especially for young people reading this, how do you find your calling so young and how did you channel your feelings around injustice into this calling?

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Interview United States History Law 120

Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field. Who are these people we talked with? The quotes in this article all come from these focus group conversations. and Canada about their technology use. Geography and Transportation. “In-person

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Accessibility Technology Language Oregon 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.)

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Afterall, nonprofit is your tax status, it shouldn’t be your business model. Conversations with essential vendors – Contact your provider and explain the situation. Mandy’s dynamic teaching style brings thousands of people annually to her presentations at conventions, trainings, and workshops, in person and online.

Money 98

Money Nonprofit United States Fund 98

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

There is no better way to drive our mission forward than to invest in the people doing the hard work. It is not lost on me that women and people of color have historically been, and still are, paid a fraction of what their white male counterparts make. On top of turnover costs, the knowledge loss alone is astounding.

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People Skills Conversation Celebrate 52

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

For those involved with nonprofit resource development, there has been an obvious redirection of financial gifting to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) - especially BIPOC-run and BIPOC-serving agencies. This is a step toward equity, but what nonprofit agencies are already well-equipped with the necessary resources?

Community 52

Community Build Minnesota Collaboration 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Today, January 17, the 30th anniversary of the Betamax decision, we’re proud to mark Benetech’s participation in Copyright Week —a week of action that aims to engage communities in the ongoing conversation about changes to copyright law and celebrate six principles for a balanced copyright system.

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for peer knowledge sharing, but we hope to distinguish it from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls. It’s curation of real-time learning. PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. For outcomes, we identified a few: NGOs share their knowledge with one another.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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Training Train Design Tech 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But it wasn’t just the ideas, it was also the people and making connections to colleagues I’ve known for more than a decade and connections to new people. Modeling the Network Mindset. This mean that roughly there would be 100 or so people in section. For each session, a moderator introduced the topics.

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Global Structure Model Network 100

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

This immediately led to cross conversation. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described. Again and again, she told personal stories of her interactions with the historic and monumental people and events she described.

Museum 51

Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I was lucky enough to have a number of exchanges with them about self-directed and peer learning models in the nonprofit sector as part of their research process and are referenced in the report. Increase Knowledge Capture. This is a form of content curation – encourage people on staff to curate their own learning and share it.

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Learning Remix Teach Hype 110

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. People who benefit from spreading your idea, not people who need to own it." Which are best/worst?

Web 114

Web San Francisco Bookmarking Org 114

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

To achieve that, sales operations people help streamline process to speed up the sales cycle and enable sellers to close more deals. Conversion Rates. Optimization of Sales Tools, Knowledge Base and other Assets. Even then, there are organizational models and structural templates you can build from. Sales Activities.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Many people suggested regular one on one meetings with colleagues. (I Read Fierce Conversations. Book group, conversation, whatever. Understanding why people do what they do, and how much they have to do, helps organizations run better. I get they are on your team if you are a leader, but they are not your staff.

Museum 67

Museum Work Chad Culture 67

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. But on the other hand, I’ve heard people say, “well it shouldn’t be.” It’s nice, but it isn’t true or useful.

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Knowledge Interview Museum Model 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. Crowdsourcing collective wisdom refers to the aggregation of anonymously produced data from groups of independent, diverse and decentralized people (crowds).

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82