Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Photo By h.koppdelaney. I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As we head into the new year, you’re likely evaluating last year’s successes and shortcomings, making this the perfect time to adjust your marketing strategies. If you have a few potential partners in mind, take a look at your constituent database and see if you have any connections that would be willing to facilitate an introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. Do numbers only matter?

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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? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. The scientific information is presented in a format that non-scientists can understand and apply. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

They’ll also help you build profiles on your donors that include their contact information and communicatino preferences. Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Make sure you provide an easy way to access the information they’re looking for. New, lapsed, or at-risk donors. .

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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. Using visuals to document a network's outcomes - whether photos or videos - is incredibly powerful.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Participants can customize their pages, share their stories, and upload photos and videos to their page. This encourages active engagement because it facilitates a friendly, competitive environment. Peer-to-peer pages can be customized to your nonprofit, as well as to each of your volunteers. Social integrations to spread awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

Photo by Ceclcia Aros. In the same time, young people are the most connected, best informed and empowered generation ever, mostly due to new media and technology. ” – Vlad Atanasiu , Resource Center for Student Organizations (Romania). Also, how we facilitate our networks and sharing control to solve complex problems. “

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Take the time to assess your operations and evaluate any gaps that volunteer work could fill. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

That means you need to make sure your information is viewable and useable on a mobile device. SMS messaging can also help you conduct surveys, provide quick answers, and gather information on-the-go. Sharing information from your database. Users can text a keyword to a shortcode to get relevant information. Photo: Alex E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. And, that’s an great way for change, from the bottom up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

Marnie Webb is facilitating. It was a big surprise that this started being used by a large group of people, and also that tags started being used for just about everything (photos, blog posts, etc.). I just noticed a session at the Nonprofit Software Developers Summit that is probably happening right now.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact. These two projects were always facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. I love seeing our staff make smart, well-informed choices. Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Gamesocial media workshops for nonprofits.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2009

Flickr Photo: akakumo Yesterday, I had the privilege of sharing the stage at an event on cloud computing hosted by the Salesforce.com/Foundation , Facebook, and Google. What that is, I think, is collaboration and evaluation, facilitated by free-moving data. You've noticed this, I'm sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. What's the tone, formal or informal? What do you do to facilitate it? This is evaluating your performance in relation to other blogs in your space using the same metrics. . Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data. Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe Note from Beth: This guest post is part 2 of coverage of SoCap 09.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. And, I also need to make my information tracking a bit more systematic. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I assume most people start there because it is arguably the easiest part to grapple with; at least you can quantitatively evaluate and compare various solutions. Common tasks of the community manager include: Guiding and informing all content planning, goal setting, and feature development.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Showcase each item with clear, detailed photos that highlight the quality and unique features, making them more desirable to bidders. Customize your flyers with vibrant graphics and concise information that highlights the key details of your auction. Video clips from past auctions. Local news and press.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But, right here at the top, we just want to make sure we state how important it is that you have a database of donor information to analyze and act on in the first place. Conversely, if the technology your nonprofit uses is actually making things harder for your team, it may be time to evaluate a new solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Approaches and tools: What are the basic guidelines for designing and using data and information visualizations? Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This type of tool has a more narrow feature set—it focuses almost exclusively on facilitating bidding without including any other event planning tools. This may include item and RSVP management, online ticketing, check-in and checkout processes, online item catalogs, online auction sites, mobile bidding, and much more. Mobile bidding.

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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," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. Go 5:49 in the clip) Source: Flickr Photos. What the heck is network weaving ? I might also add " technology stewards.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Photo by the TruthAbout. Do they include information from a lot of outside resources? What’s the tone—formal or informal? What do you do to facilitate it? Industry index This metric involves evaluating your performance in relation to other blogs in your space using the same metrics. Do they include tips?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Internal to an individual museum, relative attendance--changes over time or program--can yield useful information. What is the information value of attendance? But in an age of nonprofit accountability and increasingly sophisticated evaluation strategies, I think this kind of approach could be useful. That''s a huge question.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

Paul Martin, VP of Exhibits at SMM, took several photos of people in the exhibition over its run, and he noted something strange: there was an incredibly high percentage of photos in which someone was pointing at an exhibit label, artifact, or component. Nor would that information necessarily be compelling to most visitors.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Grants management software (GMS) is the lifeblood of most foundations — providing tools for collecting, reviewing, and choosing grant proposals, and the data to evaluate their impact. CRM empowers funders to capture the data that is most essential to their decisioning, record keeping, and evaluation.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Now, recall in Chapter 2: Nonprofit Marketing Strategy when we evaluated keyword ranking opportunities based on difficulty. Your ability to add value to the conversation, whether by facilitating a thoughtful discussion or by presenting industry changing data, is what gives your content meaning.

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