Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. Impact measurement: Have open discussions about the effectiveness of AI and decide how you will monitor its success. This will help your organization stay on the cutting edge of the latest trends.

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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll also be well-prepared to have in-depth discussions with prospective vendors and can make better decisions about which of them will be the right one to help you execute your organization’s web redesign project. Well-defined technical and design scope and constraints. Step 1: Conduct a Content Inventory and Site Audit.

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Websites Analytics Project Proposal 304

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Someone asked what the definition of a KPI was, and since I noticed that Tom Kelly who is an expert in evaluation was following the chat, I asked him for a definition. What are your best Twitter moderation techniques? Best definition I’ve seen. I was watching for answers to the questions.

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Technique Twitter Facilitation Reflection 99

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. This frees up the facilitator to focus on keeping the discussion flowing. to redirect discussions toward future possibilities. Ask if anyone has any questions. Well, almost.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 97

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Evaluation matrix . You’ll also want to create an evaluation matrix—sort of a scorecard—so you can compare your candidates with more objectivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection.

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Content San Francisco Technique Skills 123

Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

This will also allow the new employee to evaluate past ventures with a new eye and establish any possible shortcomings, shaping an environment where the organization can actually learn from their previous mistakes. Take the time to evaluate this list and see if any of it could be applicable to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? Our detailed case study with Darius Goes West reveals some fantastic insights and learnings.

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Case Study Social Media Conversation Studies 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation. Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools.

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Engagement'

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Here’s how it was used during Day 4.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Digital technologies are connecting residents in neighborhoods, catalyzing community discussions, changing the way governments and citizens interact, and making government more transparent. This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective.

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Metrics Method Tech Government 50

Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

We have the technology and techniques necessary to make the web adequately accessible. There are various tools and techniques available to test your website for accessibility. These add-ons evaluate your website’s accessibility and provide suggestions on how your site could be improved. All we need to do is make use of them.

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Beginner Accessibility Web Lesson 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. This approach is not about counting dollar signs, but about feedback loops which is discussed in Michael Quinn Patton’s new book on Developmental Evaluation. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

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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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set.

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Social Media Practice Media Social 101

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. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. This is why the session started with a discussion defining confidentiality. It may deepen and enrich the discussion.

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Network Impact Louisville Social 88

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques?

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. The mental model mapping can uncover conflict, make it discussable, and enhance effectiveness.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Develop Your Eye: The more you shoot and evaluate your work, the better your eye will become. I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. Experiment.

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Camera Photography Content Strategy 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks? What to do when a network is in trouble? How do networks learn?

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.”

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. Why Implement It?

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Gift Strategy Raise Database 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques?

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49