Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Leadership training on communications styles.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

Some CRM providers have free or low-cost plans available for small nonprofits, but most CRMs will have a recurring cost structure. Nonprofit consulting services can provide necessary training for your staff and insight into how to use your CRM in your nonprofit’s overall strategy. Consulting.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Tech stack. Why is employee engagement important?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The facilitator may be able to better convey the need and achieve the desired results.

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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 do we know about emerging practices around network strategy, structure, governance, leadership, communication platforms, backbone organizations, etc.? How do networks learn?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. “First, don’t allow yourself to become so overwhelmed and distracted by the uncertainties—what you don’t know—that you lose sight of what you do know, and what you can control.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions. Some leaders are inclusive, letting their team have input into decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! Trained mentors who can support on the job learning. Structured, but flexible schedule and plan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. “First, don’t allow yourself to become so overwhelmed and distracted by the uncertainties—what you don’t know—that you lose sight of what you do know, and what you can control.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. “First, don’t allow yourself to become so overwhelmed and distracted by the uncertainties—what you don’t know—that you lose sight of what you do know, and what you can control.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. . Tags: remix scholar training materials.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees. Implementation: Onboarding your team onto the CSR software often has associated costs like data migration, training, and customization to fit your specific needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Dave Witzel was a participant in the workshop and thought the game could be adapted as apart of training on social media at the staff retreat. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. We had similar spread for those having experience designing and delivering trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. This experiment focused on using metrics to evaluate how engaging content was and recruitment tactics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported. Evaluate your team: Do you have the right skills sets and capacity in house? Or even if they are.). Consider Rolling Your Own.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Once you understand and evaluate various key metrics and corresponding benchmarks, you can use your analysis as a blueprint to think strategically about how to improve your event’s future fundraising results. Use social media to connect and facilitate dialogue. Give your donor data the respect it deserves. Be different.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. 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.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Here are 10 important factors to consider when evaluating different event management solutions: Event Type and Size: Begin by assessing the types and sizes of events your nonprofit typically hosts. An intuitive interface can save you time and reduce training requirements for your team. Ease of Use: User-friendliness is critical!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature. Would volunteers benefit from a training manual? We suffer writer’s block.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Keynote presentations, workshops, roundtable sessions, and interactive forums will cover a variety of topics across nine training tracks. The event will also include breakout sessions where you can share data and strategies to evaluate your mid-level program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Fundraising. Donor relations. Accounting.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As you evaluate your options, ask yourself questions like: Does this venue fit within our budget? If you’re selling tickets, you’ll need to plan your pricing structure. The Registration Experience You’ve come up with a ticketing and pricing structure and decided which add-ons you want to make available to your attendees.

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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. You extend networking weaving skills by using a peer learning model not a traditional training model.

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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 love designing and delivering trainings on social media and the added challenge of working outside of the US. I have a basic structure. Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

Assessments and Review :: evaluating past performance to inform future mobilisation efforts. Training and Peer Learning :: skill-building, knowledge sharing, and network building. Training and Peer Learning :: skill-building, knowledge sharing, and network building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. Museums are changing. The envisioned twenty-first-century model, however, is more level.

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