Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. My questions: .

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

One of the biggest questions on my mind as I listen is: why isn’t my industry scaling up the way these businesses do? I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products. Precarious business model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. Evaluation is not about getting to a best practice that can be spread around the world in a standardized way and to answer the question, “Is everyone following the recipe?” Based on a logic model. Refine a model or make definitive judgment.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits?

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. One technique that I use all the time is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

If you don’t have a developmental model, you won’t know where to start or how to prioritize your time. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Not every nonprofit will go through the levels at the same pace due to organizational culture, capacity, or communication objectives, program design and target audiences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

There were lots of big unresolved questions. Once we had to prioritize, some sexy, much-discussed ideas—like celebrating local food—gave way to core MAH values—like celebrating cultural diversity. In the end, we signed a contract that answered all the big questions about how to manage the project. Who would manage construction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. For this meeting, we asked two questions: What makes a meeting a good, productive use of your time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Recognize that you’re a small business. Could I have listened more? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I kicked it off with some new stories about Networked Nonprofits – and how they apply the principles of being a networked nonprofit (transparency, public learning, experimentation, social culture,measurement, and simplicity) to get results. This session shared techniques and tools for making that process efficient.

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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. . What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The second half used a communications style diagnostic called “ The Social Style Model ” which helps people learn how to improve their people skills by being able to understand their own communications style and those who are they are interacting with and then “flex.” Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 13, 2011

The best way to keep customers happy is to make sure every contact they have with your organization is a positive experience --whether they are placing an order, asking a question, reading an invoice, etc. -- co-authored by Frank Swiatek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. Both ideas were new, so it took a little bit of adaption of the templates and techniques, but we managed to come up with something useful for all. We came up with some really practical and useful models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A crowd made up of diverse people with as many perspectives as there are people can, when faced with a question, problem or idea, generate a coalescing of sense and thence a consensus. A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? ” Model and encourage well-being practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

.” Leadership modeling is important. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. Over time, using Twitter has become more an organizational cultural norm. A sampling of effective HRW staff on Twitter: High volume, effective technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 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 workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. That is the “Sage on the Stage&# model. Some Reflections.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2009

It's the Right Culture that Prevails. ection-revision-action" model (page 15). That model requires that decision making happen quickly and iteratively. That happens best in organizations with a culture that values both learning and entrepreneurialism. But the question remains, will those donors stick around?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. Visitors have gone to town, writing both basic questions (“who made them?” “who

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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. In each of these sessions, we involve the in-country teams as the small group facilitator for the session.

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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. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments. Staff members led us in reframing our language to talk about the museum as transforming from a “traditional model to a 21 st century model” instead of failing and then succeeding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2011

Respond to questions quickly and fully 28. Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Ask questions to clarify 64. Listen carefully and don't multi-task while listening 23. Teach something new to your team 24. Show respect for all team members 25. Follow through when you promise to do something 26.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This isn't just a rhetorical question. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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