Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks? How can we create standards of practice or at least shared language and framing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Evaluate your volunteer program. In addition, ensure your training materials are accessible for people with disabilities, whether that means including captions for training videos, large-font printed materials, or training manuals in multiple languages. Evaluate your volunteer program. Develop your volunteer schedule.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses.

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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. If someone asked you whether museums should or need to have text in more than one language, what would you say? This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I know when a vendor knows their technology, and when they are blowing sales language at me, and might not be up to the technical task. And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In a socially distanced world, virtual tours of non-profits, lunch and learns with community leaders, book clubs, or movies with facilitated discussion can strengthen that foundation. One challenge I foresee for companies is that tracking, measuring, and evaluating will get more complex but not insurmountable. If so, why?

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 27, 2015

Use language from fundraising solicitations, grant proposals, or the annual report. List each consultant and their fee to facilitate this evaluation. Here are six sections to check to make sure your 990 is all it can be. Program Service Accomplishments – This is your opportunity to tell your story in your own words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

However, there was also a plea not to make evaluation painful, collecting huges amount of data and not using it to improve a program. There is something beneath the language of "what works" that can kill innovation. Measurement is the major theme as the sector grows up. And if the correction creates new problems.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The point was to create “SMARTer” objectives. The “E” stands for evaluator and the “R” stands for “Revaluate.” They used the social media online policy to generate their first draft, but found the language was too “lawyer like” versus encouraging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? We need metrics!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2007

Sarah Lordes welcomed everyone and introduced the other panelists, Terry Stokes, Marc Osten, and person from ICT Hub evaluation team. External Evaluation Team - half of the team. Evaluating what difference does the ICT hub? Marc Osten, facilitator. Three Questions that will get you moving to take a stand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice. Are you funny? Analytical?

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

A big pro of using the same tool is having shared language. To get on the same page, consider using virtual-friendly activities like The Center for Creative Leadership’s 10 Steps for Establishing Team Norms , which outlines a straightforward activity that can be facilitated remotely. It’s harder to read reactions and feel connected.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

This framework is used by Google’s human evaluators to assess the quality of web pages and provide feedback on the search algorithm. Multilingual SEO Multilingual SEO for nonprofits is a strategic approach to optimize online content for audiences speaking different languages.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

She couldn’t stand the focus on metrics as the reference point against which her work was evaluated. Trust me; it will come out in the tone of your voice or your body language. The other day I spoke with a major gift fundraiser who had quit her job with a large health care facility. I know you just took a very expensive vacation!

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. It would be like hiring one person at the United Nations to be a simultaneous translator for every language! . Invest in evaluation tools. Mastering online user experience and messaging.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In 2018, the foundation partnered with Allegiance Group + Pursuant to evaluate how it communicated its unique value. In addition to fundraising and marketing team members, you’ll want people who talk to donors daily, your data specialists, and a facilitator to keep the conversation on track. Be specific and concise.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

The facilitator is functionally another visitor, one with whom the participant is not only willing but eager to speak. But Storycorps still requires facilitators, and it asks a lot of its participants. As one of the evaluators commented, visitors want to make meaning out of their interactions with Daisy.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Why Fundraiser Productivity Is So Important Fundraisers often bear the responsibility of facilitating growth for the entire nonprofit. Format plain language into the body of an email based on their current portfolio metrics, like this: Your portfolio focus areas: 1. Gift officers have become the visible face of organizational success.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

The “smooth” part refers to ClientTrack’s ability to facilitate (i.e., In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

From the stories I’ve heard this week, nonprofits of the size that I’m most familiar with (small to medium-sized) still don’t have in-house technology expertise to make evaluations about what directions to go in. In what ways have they not? is it a problem that can be solved in any other ways?

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Conversely, if the technology your nonprofit uses is actually making things harder for your team, it may be time to evaluate a new solution. When branding a form, you should use the same font, colors, imagery, and language included on your website. Many nonprofits start out by tracking donors in an Excel spreadsheet.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. I’m also a small business owner, I have a construction company and I do language interpretation for businesses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. I'm closing the triangle between book winner and author via Twitter to facilitate learning after the workshop. Evaluation. Network Weaving With Books and Twitter.

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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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