Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public?

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But this value can also be in the form of programs and services that benefit hungry children, put a stop to the mistreatment of animals, or preserve the environment, as addressed by the work of nonprofit organizations. Read on for key ways in which your nonprofit can learn from time-honored business practices. Invest in your team.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

They are responsible for overseeing all aspects of the event, from conceptualization to post-event evaluation. Evaluation and Reporting: Assessing the event’s success by analyzing key metrics, gathering feedback, and preparing post-event reports to inform future planning and improvement.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Associations need technology that facilitates business with both individuals and organizations. A sandbox is a testing environment where you can test code changes separately from your live production environment. Learn more about why your Salesforce-based AMS needs a full sandbox. Code coverage is important. Salesforce’s?current

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. . Through deft facilitation, a funder coalition can achieve powerful unity without requiring perfect agreement. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Do the necessary market research to learn which foundations—local, regional and national—are funding nonprofits like yours.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

You can attend the upcoming ACCP webcast “ Shifting Strategies for Global Community Engagement as a Result of the Pandemic ” to learn from CSR leaders at Blackbaud, Dell and PIMCO on how they support communities facing the impacts of COVID-19. ). (Want to see what this looks like in action? Resources to Jump-Start Your Thinking.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Learn More! Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Evaluate your progress and course correct if some of your strategies aren’t resonating with your audience. Potential donors use your organization’s website as a resource to learn who you are, what you do, and how to get involved. Let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

There are more and more resources and opportunities for nonprofit professionals seeking to learn about how to use measurement and data. I would describe less of a handbook on how to use data, and more of a recipe to become a learning organization. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments. Meaning Making.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

So, you’ve decided to invest in growing your association’s learning business to provide more value to members and bring in non-dues revenue. At Web Courseworks, we provide professional services to help associations like yours build their ideal learning business. What does a learning consultant do? That’s great!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Gyrus

JUNE 23, 2016

Want to deploy and maintain the e-learnings that you have spent so much time and effort to develop? Do you want to be able to create quality actionable e-learnings? Then you’re in the market for a Learning Management System (LMS). LMS’s are an essential tool for all e-learning professionals. Any guesses?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

During my MNLM studies, I learned to appreciate a new definition of advocacy. With a program specifically designed for volunteers and staff, this will help to create a healthy working environment and motivate volunteers to return. However, volunteers can also be advocates. Who is Your Target Audience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” Crisis communication strategy.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Your organization’s potential donors are looking at your organization’s website to learn who you are, what you do, and how to get involved. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Consider a content audit to evaluate how well your website meets search intent.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

Want to deploy and maintain the e-learning that you have spent so much time and effort to develop? Do you want to be able to create quality actionable e-learnings? Then you’re in the market for a Learning Management System (LMS). LMS’s are an essential tool for all e-learning professionals. Any guesses?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving. We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. Institute the agility that is needed in a fast-changing environment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

In order to be successful in effectively addressing social ills, nonprofit organizations must learn to utilize a network strategy of collaboration amongst diverse stakeholders to create true social impact. This is accomplished by fostering an environment of transparency and openness within each organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Relationships that had been tenuous in the office became untenable in the remote environment. It is an ability that can be learned and should be an important piece in workplace education. Self-regulation— means learning to effectively manage conflict, stress, and challenges. EI isn’t a superpower or a mysterious psychic talent.

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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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? Of course, there were some prizes involved!).

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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. What is the importance of eLearning assessments?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving. We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. Institute the agility that is needed in a fast-changing environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving. We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. Institute the agility that is needed in a fast-changing environment.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

There are also cases when specific circumstances are met that merchants can discontinue their annual assessment process to re-evaluate PCI compliance and gain safe-harbor protection in case of a breach. EMVCo’s charter is to facilitate worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions. What is EMV E2EE?

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

This encourages active engagement because it facilitates a friendly, competitive environment. Qgiv offers an Facebook integration that allows you to raise funds right on Facebook, all while collecting the donor data you need to thank you donors and evaluate your fundraising strategy. Learn more about their pricing here.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Read ahead to learn how you can improve the whole process or use these links to jump to the section that most interests you. Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. major gifts. Why Implement It?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. For instance, you can invite a team member to give a presentation about their team responsibilities in a “Lunch and Learn” format. Tech stack. Why is employee engagement important?

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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," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

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. Develop Your Eye: The more you shoot and evaluate your work, the better your eye will become. Experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. We set unrealistic outcomes, don't have a methodology for learning or sloppy strategy implementation. We get poor results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

What I love about these (youth driven, hackathon) events is the optimism, hope, raw ability and potential for a home-run in a networked tech-environment that can accelerate to tangible and scalable change in a relatively short period of time. … Also, how we facilitate our networks and sharing control to solve complex problems. “

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development , employee giving , environment , online safety , and the role of technology in the non-profit community. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew? “ Unleashing Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Lisa Gansky’s presentation on The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing (learn more at [link] ) and the joint presentation from Bill Traynor and Audrey Jordan about Lawrence CommunityWorks, a project in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is rebuilding a profoundly shredded civic infrastructure. Audrey Jordan, a loaned exec of Annie E.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. He is fluent in Spanish (for a non-native speaker) and one of his main areas of study is bilingual interpretation in out-of-school environments. Bilingualism in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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