Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. a) Green: Great things you’ve heard of, or done yourself.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When the lockdown happened, we found ourselves momentarily in the air, waiting for our parachutes to open. As I evaluated our content and the possibilities for growth, I could feel the wheels starting to move beneath me again. Like so many parents, we were cut off from the outside world without notice. Keep on asking.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2018

It’s time for a frank discussion on the role each and every one of us—from leadership to board, database managers to finance teams—can and must play to foster an open, innovative culture of philanthropy. Evaluate risks with information. However, this kind of culture shift cannot be achieved unless the entire organization is on board.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Their president and founder Matt Bauer also co-edited the excellent Nonprofit Guide to Going Green. This provides a case study view of how increased telework can have positive environmental impacts and lowered costs for organizations that are able develop open work or flex work practices.

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JULY 14, 2021

Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event. “ If your event has multiple remote guest speakers, have a staff member dedicated to run a green room (preparation room). These emails had much higher open and click-through rates than other email sends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.” Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in. Innovative Giving: The Nature Conservancy and (Lil) Green Patch. Innovative Giving: The Open Architecture Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. The best comment I got was from a long-time reader John Powers on Facebook that reading the posts was like watching me open presents at a birthday party. If I had more bandwidth and if I had been more ambitious goals, I would have set up unique tracking URLs in bit.ly

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Brett Bonfield has a test to help evaluate whether you are ready for social networking. Close the door!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. What I heard is “yes we know, and let’s keep it simple” These investors do not need what another speaker referred to as the “complex and opaque” evaluation results that some other approaches yield.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls. Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

All of these efforts translated into real progress on real problems, opening up new opportunities to address the needs of the bottom billion — and enabling developing countries to become engines of growth in their own right. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa. That is one fictional scene from this world.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 2, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 How To Be An Open Leader Charlene Li, the author of the best-seller book, Groundswell , was kind enough to send me an advance copy of her newest book, Open Leadership , which she released for sale on May 24. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010 5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers I really like author Paul R. Timms advice to stop asking your customers the "typical" questions and instead ask them open-ended questions. These open-ended questions will let your customers really express their ideas, opinions and needs. Don't Praise.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And so, you know, not knowing this, you know, 6 months, 18 months where we would end up and where we are now and really thinking through, okay, what happens when the world opens up back again and we’re able to approach donors and ask for big gifts. That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? I mean, crying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Open Access publishing therefore leads to wider dissemination of information and increased efficiency in science … Which is, actually, a very practical down to earth argument. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Practically, what this means is that the principle component of our program is a Community Health Action Committee (CHAG), responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating their own public health and social development projects. Photos of Caitlin Cohen and "Woman with Green Door Sikoro" provided by Caitlin Cohen.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

However, thats hard enough to do when evaluating any one nonprofit organization, let alone the many thousands that we would like to compare. Its a work-in-progress, and students already have reported the expected bumps in using the pilot methods to evaluate the accountability and transparency of their subject nonprofits.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. Walking the floor at an ATD conference is a real eye opener as to what the current market possibilities are. Gamification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

We expected a decent Second Life audience, because on the opening day of the conference, Linden Lab offered to put a link on the main login screen that some 70,000 people might see. Gone Green(er). I was glad to see our team eager to embrace a move to generating less print materials,a s part of our NMC Goes Green effort.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. TV and the press Exit Strategy -- Planned means of extricating oneself from a situation Flash Mob -- Brief gathering for a common purpose, announced by e-mail or text Flyover States -- Central regions of the U.S. Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Open Leadership author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these "open leadership skills assessment" questions: Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The survey typically takes respondents seven to 10 minutes to fill out and the results you get will identify your strengths and weaknesses, and will allow you to compare your evaluators responses to your own self-assessment. The self-evaluation survey is free and its the first step in the program. Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The program evaluates words and phrases for the intensity of eight primary emotions, allowing you to adjust the overall tone before you send your message. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. If you don’t use us currently, what are some of the reasons why you don’t? “These questions are designed to allow your customers to share their perspectives and opinions openly, not rate performance on a numerical scale,&# explained Brown.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Dont evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. So, be sure you provide the forums and mechanisms for your employees to share their ideas with you. Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. Ask for wild ideas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

The more you open up and share your feelings, the more trust you build and the more likely youll build a connection with a co-worker. Keeping your office door open, communicating in person versus e-mail or via the phone, allows you to click more. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Timm that you can use to evaluate your organizations customer service via the phone: 1. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. So, heres a checklist that is primarily from sales expert and author Paul R. Was the phone answered after two rings or less? Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Now, it is much more than just an online shoe store, and its known for its unwavering focus on superior customer service. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. Don't Praise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. ▼ November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. ► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback.

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