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. Regularly have meetings to discuss expenditure and overheads. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She gave an overview of the three different methods that would be discussed in more detail throughout the day. Based on a logic model. Refine a model or make definitive judgment. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews.

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Evaluation Generation Method Slides 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Register here. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Model Network Weaving: Network weaving encourages rhizomatic behavior – so what better way then to model the techniques for others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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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 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Once the students have discussed the question for a few minutes, Mazur instructs them to answer the question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . Let’s now discuss how we can make an impact together.” But her business model is all about generosity, all about offering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

Social Media 96

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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

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. At the actual meeting, you start with an icebreaker or what Andrea calls the “hook” to get people thinking about the topic.

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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. I took a series of screen shots from social media platforms and had the participants discuss and identify what the best Arabic phrase or word. Why do we need it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

He will join me via skype from Italy for an interview and discussion. I recorded the above skype interview as a technology back up – it is filled with great advice and worth listening to for 14 minutes. (If you’re short on time, I have a transcript linked to resources here ). If not, we’ll roll the video.

Content 101

Content Skype Learning Slides 101

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Meaning, as print news becomes obsolete, nuanced approaches to information-sharing will emerge that will meet the intended goals of journalism; consumption of information will change; and reporters will no longer be the only ones who are breaking news. As a civil society, we need more quality information,” explained Feeney.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

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. producers, and all those involved apply the information to improve. But it isn’t the technology that matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.) I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

While stating that it is still too early to say how successful this has been they give some examples of how this has worked and discuss improvements needed. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved. Big Data and Global Development.

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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 addition, we had the in-country team leader from Morocco, Widad, translate the instructions a third time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

The webinar content is important, but it is only part of the instructional design task. Once you’ve identified what people will learn from the webinar, think about your content in these three different categories: Self-Directed Reading: Materials and Information that participants can read and review on their own. Small: Up to 25 people.

Facilitation 50

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. ” The reports offers up the metaphor of “ how shift from fighting fires to innovation ” The report also talks about an organization’s cultural readiness to switch to a culture of continuous improvement, using a blog post I wrote about being data-informed for inspiration.

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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.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

Story 52

Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

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. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I obtain a list of participants with their organizational contact information and do a scan and audit of their digital presences if I’m leading a session on digital marketing. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2018

Today’s buyers have enormous power and information and more choices than ever before,” add the authors, James Kouzes , Barry Posner and Deb Calvert. They have easy access to more information and options than ever before. Build bonds of trust with your buyers. Provide meaningful and relevant experience.

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Demonstration Leadership Script Teach 40

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. Too many nonprofit staff are so busy doing the work, they don’t step back to consider the bigger picture of organizational culture and a shared mental model. Business guru Peter F.

Culture 47

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a brief pre-survey where I was able to collect information about success stories, challenges, and current social media usage. The full group discussion allowed people at different levels to share their experiences. So, how can you do that in a keynote with several hundred people in the room? It’s a design challenge.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

And 60 Minutes recently did a segment on it as a technique to counterbalance our obsession with electronics devices. Classifying financial information in much-needed ways. We modeled mindfulness for them. Department of Veterans Affairs has a portion of its website dedicated to it. Generating W-2 and 1099 forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org is a data-informed organization that uses a ladder of engagement not only to guide its content and social media integration strategy, but uses measurement at each rung of the ladder to ensure that they are getting results. Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices.

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Measure Policy Social Media Green 97

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

Story 46

Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Brain Mind Offline South Africa 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

That happens when leaders model and encourage it. The value of listening is not in the act of listening in and of itself, but when an organization or individual uses the information to improve programs or marketing. Kate directs those people to their web site where they can find legal information as well as referrals.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques. I never dive into the tools, this session began with a focus on how and where listening fits in the organization and the work flow. I demoed a lot of different techniques in real time with suggestions of keywords or examples from the participants.

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Organization Chicago Social Media Technique 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. They want to combine both.

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