Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. Opening Exercise.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the strategies that make capital campaigns successful is that they are designed to involve many volunteers over the life of the campaign through ad-hoc committees. Capital campaign committees are designed to have a beginning, middle, and end. The nature of capital campaign committee structures.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Ensuring compliance and accuracy in your financial reporting involves several key actions: Regularly review the latest guidelines and summaries provided by authoritative bodies on revenue recognition of grants and contracts. It automates and facilitates these comparisons, allowing for more efficient monitoring and decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

A well-integrated system can facilitate these upselling opportunities seamlessly. Creating Your Online Store Setting up an online store with Flipcause starts by designing the storefront and choosing products that reflect your nonprofit and its mission. You can personalize this online store with your branding, colors, logos, and images.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. When designing your mobile page, it’s crucial to prioritize the most essential features of your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. Laura Whitehead is the session designer for a workshop on Social Media and Nonprofits and she's asking for input from the NpTech community on the session. In addition, no visuals either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. A volunteer management system, or volunteer management software, is a platform with features designed to help organizations administer volunteer programs, events, and initiatives. What is a volunteer management system?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. He also had a hand in designing early days of the leader board effect’ where recognition was the reward. He authored The Virtual Community and was an original founder of the WELL.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Note from Beth: Whether you are planning to present at a conference or deliver a one-day workshop, the secret to success is in good design. You need to shape it and that means thinking through some design questions. What are your session’s learning objectives and who is the audience? Who will facilitate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. Instructional Design Notes. Digital Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You can read a summary of the viral campaign here and here. Each presenter gave a summary of their campaign as follows: The Genesis: How did it get started? Our session used the following structure. The New Normal: What was impact on your organization and its fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Below is a summary of answers to some questions during the webinar and related resources on the Giving Day Playbook. If you missed it, you can listen to the recording here , or join us for one of two upcoming conversations on Giving Days: the #FundChat Twitter chat on the Playbook at 12 EST Wednesday Sept. ET Thursday Sept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. Here’s a summary of what I learned: Do You Have The Basics of Good Meetings Covered? .

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 23, 2023

When it comes to the following payment types, a payment processor is required in order to facilitate a secure transaction: Credit and debit cards: This is the most common digital payment method, allowing donors to use their cards for one-time or recurring donations. And there are some that don’t!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Program summaries, such as the advertising and exhibit income, registration fees, government grants, and private monetary donations received. Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution. Responsive design.

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

Text fundraising is a popular method of charitable giving facilitated by messages on a mobile device. The donation process is prompted by text, either when the organization asks if the recipient wants to give or when the supporter texts the designated keyword. How Text Fundraising Can Be Used For Small Nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Facilitate these activities at either the local, state, or national level. The foundation wants to get a short summary of what you propose to do, what you've done so far, a bit about yourself and your organization, and the outcomes you're working toward. Make voting easy, efficient, and fair. Be brief and be visual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. Here’s a summary: There was a range of practice for using data and measurement to improve social media and demonstrate impact: Crawl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Sending a short summary of progress made and any issues or challenges ahead of a meeting. ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Here is a summary of the stories and what people learned from the experience: Events. JCamp 180 : If you are rolling out a big project, break it down is small chunks for easier monitoring. If the project includes an assessment and learning process, design it so people can easily learn from one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This guest post is a summary of a longer piece posted on The Whitman Institute ’s website titled From The Kids’ Table To The Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks. Rather than creating a new network, the Project is designed to “tune up” the networks that currently exist in the region.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. Having a facilitator - the summaries helped make the tag stream accessible.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

Here's a summary of the most common responses. Community Brainstorm We asked for your input on a couple of key issues surrounding the conference, and we loved the feedback. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts and ideas in the comments, below!

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

There are warning signs that your brand is too commercialized and doesn’t focus on the donor: the work is not grounded in donor behavior; the brand describes your organization in a symbolic way rather than in a clear fashion that moves donors to act; or the brand is design and little else. You can reach her at kris@causeplanet.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. The Third C: Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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