Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Here are the definitions: Connectivity Network: This type of network links people to allow them to exchange experience and information as a result of that exchange learn.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

This was my first experience with NTEN, a great organization that I think really “gets it,” both in terms of facilitating positive interactions with people and technology, and understanding challenges specific to the nonprofit world. Can you describe your experience at the 14LCS? 14LCS was a transformative experience for me in many ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Vincent Stehle moderated and other panelists included Paula Goldman , Omidyar Network, Jacob Harold , Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Travis Manzione , Director of Assessment Tools for CEP. It can also facilitate informal communications with other people in the grantee organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. I wondered whether the more general learnings about network effectiveness and evaluating networks would be considered confidential?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement. weekly, biweekly,monthly, or quarterly) check-ins to evaluate what is working and what is not.The organization provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. The term means learning culture.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

LMS’s are an essential tool for all e-learning professionals. If you are the one doing the evaluation of those needs, we recommend creating a team and discussing individual needs on a per department basis to ensure the best possible fit. Outside of these answers, there is one more thing that you will definitely need to know.

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Gyrus

JUNE 23, 2016

LMS’s are an essential tool for all e-learning professionals. If you are the one doing the evaluation of those needs, we recommend creating a team and discussing individual needs on a per department basis to ensure the best possible fit. Outside of these answers, there is one more thing that you will definitely need to know.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A concrete definition helps clear things up here. I personally liked the definition presenter Peter Campbell, of Earthjustice , used: an outsourced platform, application, or suite of applications delivered over the Internet. There are many potential benefits to using cloud tools. Don't focus on tools first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

Totally different set of measurement tools and skills needed. We need to be very informed and focused about what types of data, measurement, and evaluation we need for the stage of the intervention. ” — Victoria Vrana , Gates Foundation, Charitable Sector Support. Time is money and flexibility makes people uncomfortable.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. Use assessments as a tool for testing and learning. Gamification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. We wanted to give everyone a chance to get more familiar with the tools, and, more importantly, understand how social media is relevant to their goals. What did we do? We went all-out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. How: 6 Tools and Tips. I think I made up the term " social instructional design " which is how you integrate social media tools into your workshop AND how you plan for engagement during delivery. I blogged about the content last week.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. Photo by RedRaspus.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

If you're using out-of-the-box online tools, change the code if you have to. Or, find a new tool. It invites its super fans to join a private Facebook group, with useful information and a facilitated discussion. Figure out what actually happens after you send out an email, and evaluate your approach based on that.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Once you understand and evaluate various key metrics and corresponding benchmarks, you can use your analysis as a blueprint to think strategically about how to improve your event’s future fundraising results. And within each event, there are definitely groups of participants that we should focus on more than most. Be different.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s definitely possible to run a modern nonprofit event without employing any event management software—but it’s not easy. Registration and Ticketing Registration and ticketing tools vastly simplify the process of attendee sign-ups and ticket sales for your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. From listening, to creating to evaluating and then back to the listening again so that you can modify and then evaluate, and so on.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

We have the tips and tricks you’ll need to make your marketing plan a useful tool for your entire team. Thinking through your marketing strategy also provides the chance to evaluate your standing in your sector. A data reporting tool like Qgiv’s data package can be especially helpful in this situation.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 3, 2016

As to not shroud this document with bias, I have taken the liberty of pulling the dictionary.com definition of a Learning Management System, which appears below: noun. That definition alone should help you get on the right track in relation to what your organization needs. Abbreviation: LMS. Get Organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. Here's a good basic definition from a blog post titled " The Power of Network Weaving" from the Network Weaving Blog.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Use Technology to Automate Processes Take advantage of the tools and technology that you have—especially those that are built specifically to handle fundraising for nonprofits. Conversely, if the technology your nonprofit uses is actually making things harder for your team, it may be time to evaluate a new solution.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools. We will engage volunteers to evaluate the technologies for how usable—and socially adaptable—they are. Definitely. How do you develop mechanisms specifically to encourage connection?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! We’ll examine how to harness tools for nurturing positive outcomes and amplifying impact. Yale Philanthropy Conference / New Haven, CT / $110. Strategic. Apr 19 - 21.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. If anything, having social media as part of your trainer's tool box makes this an easy task. Evaluation. Customize once you get on-site. Real-time improvisation.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Now, recall in Chapter 2: Nonprofit Marketing Strategy when we evaluated keyword ranking opportunities based on difficulty. To get started, I entered the phrase into three different keyword difficulty scoring tools: Ahrefs , Moz , and KWFinder. Use Emotion As A Call To Action. And don’t worry about not being a graphic designer.

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