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? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! This requires a lot of more thinking through the design and technical practice to run smoothly.). Think Beyond Presenters.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The future role of AI Prompt Architect will be responsible for designing and implementing AI prompts that improve user experience and achieve business objectives. Now, as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape our digital landscape, a new role will emerge for nonprofits: the AI Prompt Architect.

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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.” There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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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. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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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. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

” I wondered whether or not I was just weird, so I have been looking to some of the literature that looks at learning design from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience. One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on?

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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. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Remember, a well-designed website that seamlessly incorporates social media acts as a powerful catalyst for advancing the impact of your nonprofit organization. This approach not only maintains a clean and user-friendly design for your blog and social media, but it also helps increase traffic to your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. Get the design or presentation of prediction solutions wrong and you can impact user trust and adoption. From a dummy donor dataset with no context, no prompt, ChatGPT surprisingly came back with a summary of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For instance, NeonMoves, a mobile application, is designed to help fundraisers spend less time trying to figure out whom to contact and more time in conversation with donors. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. It can also consist of reinforcement of techniques and procedures. Reinforcement.

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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

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? . A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2013

Yes, the same technique that ultimately brought us things like space shuttles and smartphones can help you increase your online donation rates (no beakers or Bunsen burners required). Draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis – Did a new technique work well? Google Analytics content experiments.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

More daunting is designing valid control group social research, which compares measurable differences between people receiving services and those that are not. Doing this work defensibly involves arcane techniques like applying probabilistic equivalence techniques to insure that groups being measured are equivalent.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. A streamlined and well designed dashboard. Does not know where to start. Articulating measurable goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow.

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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. It’s a design challenge. How Feeding America Uses KPIs to Measure Social Media.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Prevent donors from having to enter the same data more than once with good form design ! Make sure your website is mobile-accessible and read our guide on how to design a great mobile donation form. . Be sure to: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers. " You read an excerpt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She also lead the session on "Gender and Blogging" (I will post a summary of that session as soon as recover from jet lag!) I did not have a computer backround, so it was difficult in the beginning because I wanted to design and have it look nice but didn't know how do it. She is also a terrific live blogger!

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative. By including bold visuals and plenty of breathing room between design elements , PIH offers web users a compelling and well-balanced aesthetic. This technique grabs readers’ attention by putting them in Dustin’s shoes.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

In addition to destroying the trees and vegetation there is another big problem with this technique — where does the mountain top end up? SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The recent EPA EIS on MTM found that only 6.8% It is just what the name implies. They remove the top of a mountain to expose the coal vein.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I wrote thousands of lines of code and designed more databases than I can count. And I also looked at this with post-implementation eyes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

P.S. There's a bullet point in the summary handout that says “Beware of RFPs.” I'll simply say that RFPs are, in my opinion, the most widely imitated, and poorly understood, of all the techniques that nonprofits try to copy from larger commercial and government organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt. This process consists of three activities. Know your keywords. Engaging internally.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s easy to get bogged down by stats so make it relatable by designating an individual as the focal point and adding a personal, heartfelt narrative. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. Not sure where to start?

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records audio, transcribes spoken words into text, captures slides, and generates summaries – all in real-time. Using statistics and modeling techniques, predictive analytics helps predict future outcomes. Here are some AI-powered tools to get you started.

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