Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In modern times we expect a lot from our training and development programs, and it safe to assume that progression in our industry is strictly relational to a number of additional learning aspects we can obtain from our Learning Programs themselves. Time Management. Well, I am here to tell you that there indeed is. Conclusion.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2019

It provides strategies, techniques, and an approach to recognizing and confronting any threat faced by an organization in fulfilling its mission.” . It’s a defined, routine commitment to gather, evaluate and respond to threats and opportunities. There are plenty of things that could cause potential issues for a nonprofit.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Using the internet can introduce many issues for people who experience a disability. We have the technology and techniques necessary to make the web adequately accessible. It’s a legal issue. There are various tools and techniques available to test your website for accessibility. websites, operating systems, apps, etc.)

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2019

It provides strategies, techniques, and an approach to recognizing and confronting any threat faced by an organization in fulfilling its mission.” . It’s a defined, routine commitment to gather, evaluate and respond to threats and opportunities. There are plenty of things that could cause potential issues for a nonprofit.

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Guide Management Profit Issue 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd! Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. The only valid data is quantitative data Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis Make data-driven [.]

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How do we respond to common objectives such as a lack of interest, recent issues with the organization, or other giving priorities? Spend significant time working with your organization’s communication director to put this resource together. These are some of our favorite times to do so: Monday – Thursday, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

These are techniques even smaller organizations can implement every day to improve their marketing efforts, see more impressive results, and gain even more loyalty from their communities. It's also shockingly economical and far more effective than traditional marketing techniques. Can you accept donations of time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

How does your organization avoid falling into the trap that a networked nonprofit is just about using tools and platforms? Your organization needs to think holistically. If you don’t have a developmental model, you won’t know where to start or how to prioritize your time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Simply put, we are living an era of content abundance. A content curator offers high value to anyone looking for quality content because finding that information (and making sense of it) requires more and more time, attention, and focus. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources.

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

His work on legendary viral videos like The Meatrix and The Story of Stuff series has brought key social issues to the attention of more than 60 million viewers and his interactive work has been honored with 'Best Of' awards three times at the standard-setting South By Southwest interactive festival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

charities with economists willing to donate their time. Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. .” It struck Brookes that if a large, established charity was soliciting economists, others might well be in need.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement.

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Social Media Measure Media Social 88

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. And so it goes …….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How do these networks evolve over time? How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. Time Keeper: Keeps time. 3-How To Avoid Technical and Time Zone Scheduling Snafus.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. In fact, they could follow his curation and pick items from that, thus saving time.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. This approach works especially well for talking about technology issues. What work issues annoy them most? For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “ aggregator ” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing. Q: What is your best time saving tip?

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?).

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Finance / @southwestfdns. 41st Annual FAE Nonprofit Conference. State/Local.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. I have seen a lot of inclusion practices and policies in museums and cultural institutions, but I haven''t seen many evaluations of their success. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits? at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I particularly liked this quote: "In a nutshell, content marketing is the art of understanding exactly what your target audience wants to know about your issue area and delivering it to them in a relevant and compelling way.". If there are specific issues or questions you’d like answered about content, let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity. Donors of all ages will be looking for meaningful points of engagement with your organization. Notice something strange about those tasks?

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. Are you up-to-date on the latest tactics and techniques in your area of focus? The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. Are you credible?

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Communication Online DC Wiki 57

NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

After all, those organizations must know what works when it comes to IT -- they spend a lot more time and money on it. A lot of IT failures happen when people focus too much on one issue at the expense of another. Never mind the more esoteric issues like how you'll handle tagging, and having good search support.)

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Include the task description, role responsible, start date, completion date, evaluation that the activity is completed. You can see that this is your time to be very detailed because it answers that ‘achievability’ question. You can include as many tasks as are needed to reach your objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. Time Keeper: Keeps time. 3-How To Avoid Technical and Time Zone Scheduling Snafus. First, make sure everyone troubleshoots their technical issues before the meeting, if possible.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. One last thought on evaluation. From a museum perspective, I'm more interested in evaluations of the audience experience of participation.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

As you start to feel the priorities of your community evolving, here are four ways to evaluate and respond so your grantmaking organization stays relevant to your community’s changing needs. Define the problem: Identify the specific problem or issue you want to address through data analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. What do you think? No worries.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SEO is a set of techniques for making your website more discoverable to people using search engines to find information. To begin optimizing a webpage for SEO, add your keyword into places that search engines prioritize when evaluating what to show on their search results, including: Titles and headers. Lastly, don’t go overboard.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: A PBD fundraiser or public media professional looking for the inside scoop To Register: [link] FFE Summit Cabo San Lucas January 22-25, 2024 Hosted by the Foundation for Fraternal Excellence, Summit gives foundation executives, board members, and alliance partners an opportunity to spend time with each other. Want more time?

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