3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

We asked several interesting poll questions to open the event, and the wrapped with a Q&A session. Unfortunately, we could not answer all questions before the event closed. As always, if you have questions about a donor data migration project, or any of your nonprofit data needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. I started with an introduction to the Networked Nonprofit and an assessment that allows them evaluate where their use of networks and social media is along a continuum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

7 Things Your Association Strategy Should Include Mapping out a strategy for your membership association isn’t a one-time process. Take this 6-question quiz to get a customized list of CRM vendors that will best fit your nonprofit based on your budget, size, and functionality needs. If it doesn’t, then your organization won’t last.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It also has been fun to reflect back on training sessions I’ve designed and facilitated over the past 2 decades as working as trainer in the nonprofit technology area. Over the last few years, I’ve used my blog as a transparent reflection tool. Creating a Network Map. Evaluation. Learning Styles.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. Can’t wait!

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

But as any fundraiser worth their salt will tell you – planning is something you need to do, without question. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Evaluating your mission statement: Your company’s mission statement reflects its purpose and goals, and can even relate to some nonprofit causes. After evaluating the purpose of your workplace giving program, determine which initiatives will be most beneficial to help you reach your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks. Knowledge processes always start with some explicit or underlying questions. Questions are instrumental to successful grantmaking that focuses on change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? Are you required to measure? What do you hope to learn?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

Remember that you can't always judge a big organization by its publicity, since that may just reflect a large advertising budget. Also, be on the lookout for questionable charities that have a name that closely resembles the name of a well-known, legitimate charity; some sound-alike charities are scams. Do your research. Get another!

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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 to mitigate questions of power and competition in the network? How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Whether it''s feedback, questions, or general conversation, these calls and all that you share on them help us ensure we are focused on the right priorities and have consistent, open opportunities to connect directly with you. Below is a full report from topics covered on the Town Hall call and questions raised from participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What's your strategy map? What worked?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Here is the first critical question to ask before you do anything else: WHY will your nonprofit exist? Sit down and write out the answers to these questions. As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. This will help you gain clarity of mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Make Time for Reflection. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day.

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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 ). There are key questions to consider before investing in a social media monitoring solution.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Question: My board of directors and staff are working, doing their jobs in the day to day, but they don’t seem to have the energy or interest in the overall mission and future of the organization. Do you have questions about starting, governing, managing or operating a nonprofit organization? Collecting the data. Analyzing the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Also, the idea of faster tools like social network analysis that give us real time information and the need for someone who is embedded in the network as a real time evaluator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions. and storify. Stories: How will encourage people to share their stories and capture them?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

This common sentiment among department managers, expressed when the budget season rolls around, reflects the challenge they face adding another responsibility while juggling their regular duties. In addition to going over the lessons learned from the previous year, take time to map out your entire budget workflow.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Besides the fact that people just don’t seem to do that anymore, it’s made me reflect on a lot of things. Relationships don’t develop overnight, and if you want to have the kind of meaningful exchanges that create breakthroughs, think about starting small in how you evaluate progress. Like the speed of change technology has brought. (My

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Do you interrogate the map? I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. It's easy to ask visitors just one question. But a few people seemed nervous that we were trying to trick or evaluate them.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2015

Many questions arise: How much of my time will go into finding a replacement? Instead, consider this an opportunity to step back and evaluate goals, responsibilities, qualifications and team structure while also being thoughtful and deliberate about what you really need in the role. How long will it take to find a replacement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I tried to make the point by raising the question, " Can you quantify the intangible ?" I'm trying to shift myself off the forward movement and into reflection mode around the America's Challenge. that is if the back end of the donation tool tracked that sort of thing or at least gave me data to map it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. It also raises the question, "Is influence what should be measured?" This would enable people to be able to map target media, meme creation, consumption and sharing habits. How does one use this information ???

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. Stringing Connections , in which visitors could describe relationships between works in the exhibition and make them visible by tying pieces of yarn between them on a large map of the gallery. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

We started using the theory of change to focus our programs and partnerships, evaluate our work, and change the way we talk about what we do. Here are some questions for Ian about his side of the experience working with us on this project. evaluation institutional change interview Museum of Art and History research'

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

But love is just a starting point, not a road map to success. Some of these essays in this section offer some much-needed perspective on that road map, a perspective lacking in some of the more specific case studies. Visitor Voices is a great resource as a compendium of projects all over the map.

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M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

While we push ourselves and our clients every day toward a more equitable future, we’re also continually evaluating our internal structures to determine how we can bring an equity-centered approach to all of our work. to consider the following questions: Who needs to hear more about the advocacy work for a given issue?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So don’t be shy, ask questions. There’s a question box. We’d love to answer your questions. . Rachel: Mm-hmm. You can tweet us.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

But most importantly, we love these sessions to be interactive, so please do chat in your questions and comments. Introduce yourself if you haven’t already, because we’re going to be asking you some questions later. . So what are some of the main questions I hear from folks like you? You can use either of those.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

the question of how cultural objects are defined and valued and 2. This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools. We will engage volunteers to evaluate the technologies for how usable—and socially adaptable—they are.

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