Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, we are not suggesting that you become your staff member’s therapist (if they need one your employee should be able to access your organization’s EAP), it is more about understanding that our team members are dynamic individuals, balancing personal hurdles while also fulfilling their professional duties.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0. Our research included interviewing thought leaders, organizing think tanks, and surveying professionals. In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.”

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. If you don’t have leaders with a range of professional backgrounds, there will not be a lot of new thinking.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Imagine you’re teed up for a jackpot question on Jeopardy. One goal was to identify how the pandemic impacted their business models. If your members experience a shift in their professional direction, adjusting the organization’s purpose is critical to keep pace. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Now that “disruption” is a business catchphrase, is “resilience” an equally common term in your professional vocabulary? But scenarios are also a tool that can be used to evaluate longer-term initiatives. Scenario planning aids in exploring these six core questions: Why are we engaged in planning now?

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Leaders who promote professional development and education of all kinds also encourage teams to bring an expansive perspective to their work. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Predictive analytics: BWF defines predictive analytics as the process of assessing your nonprofit’s data to make predictions and model future donor behavior. By analyzing historical data, AI models can anticipate future donor behavior and identify potentially valuable fundraising opportunities. Encourage experimentation.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” To quote Mahatma Gandhi, “The path is the journey,” and what we learn along the way as we encounter resistance, as we motivate ourselves, and as we engage others, offers great learning that supports personal and professional growth.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Encourage them to leverage their professional and social relationships to bring new supporters to the table. So, what EXACTLY should your Board be doing?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Access comprehensive insights : AI models can analyze vast amounts of data far faster than any human. By analyzing donor data, AI models can help you learn more about your donors, prioritize outreach, and identify new major donors. AI shines here with its wealth screening and predictive modeling capabilities.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 16, 2022

Registered Apprenticeships are proven models, validated by the U.S. Talent for Good completed a rigorous evaluation of its recruiting, training, and placement processes in order to achieve the nationally recognized credential. “Talent for Good was born out of a dire need to address the massive, continually expanding Salesforce talent gap.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The board governance model is one of four primary nonprofit governance models. Start-up organizations often adopt a “working board” model due to limited funds or the desire to generate community buy-in with a 100% volunteer-led mission. An organization transitions into a “governing board” model when an ED is hired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

And while this model is describing individual behavior, individuals make up organizations – so I think it is important for people working in organizations to understand, whether they are the executive director or the social media manager. If they do, they are typically “resistant” learners, often questioning the value of the technology.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They don’t evaluate the numbers. . If that’s the case with your organization, you need to invest in their professional development and skills development. Start by asking yourself these two questions: . Before you do, consider that you might need to shift your funding model and mindset first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

To question Facebook and it’s integrity, longevity and ROI [Return on Investment]. As Beth Kanter explains very well , it has everything to do with – you guessed it – Facebook’s revenue model and its long-term goal for worldwide domination of the Internet. Enough with the mystery Facebook! The masses are fickle.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

This is a question I broached in “ What Will a Post-COVID Nonprofit Economy Reveal ? ” Here are several questions for your consideration. Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. Ask questions like: Which of the following describes your mood over the past 6 months?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These solutions include tools that enable your team to quickly and easily visualize data points and answer questions such as: To what degree are we able to accurately predict the flow of funding? As a former nonprofit finance professional, I know that whenever opportunities appear to reduce costs, we should embrace them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

As nonprofit professionals, we all want to impact the greatest possible number with our work. Ask the following questions: Why should the program scale up? If program evaluation has been done well, this may be one useful tool to help convince stakeholders to buy in (Harris, 2010). How should the program expand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. You will find answers to questions like, “Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?” by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

professional learn about -- and selectively embrace -- new technologies, when it's hard to keep basic systems running? As a frugal, belt-watching nonprofit professional, it's not too hard to be skeptical. means to reach out and ask those nagging questions you’ve been meaning. A logic model can only go. Your new iPhone.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As the litany of new, strange, scary, and interesting applications of AI and machine learning keep expanding before our eyes, we all must constantly re-evaluate its implications. Stable Diffusion’s AI model is much more flexible to use real people’s names and images in its renderings. . AI Image Generation. Rights Issues. Inclusivity.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

If it seems like a reasonable evaluation, the nonprofit takes the donor’s word for it. Hourly rate: The hourly rate approach can make it much easier to assess the value of those intangible in-kind donations like professional services or consulting. This will be helpful if there are questions later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. What are the different types of online assessment?

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

This leaves students questioning if they can make more money more quickly—and avoid student debt—by entering the workplace with a certificate instead of a college degree. Re-evaluate your messaging. Today’s students see high tuition costs, increased demand for skilled labor, and a decline in degree requirements for open positions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. This is evaluation.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Wait, before you stop reading, this question isn’t as silly as it sounds. Although most small to mid-sized groups probably do not have the resources to hire a dedicated customer experience professional to evaluate those activities. If your brand was a person, who would it be?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Daring to Lead report finds that a full 55% of your peer executives name technology as a “depleting” aspect of their job (it would have been the most depleting of all options surveyed, if not for the joys of HR – like evaluating and hiring/firing staff). The Seven Questions. ” Follow-up questions might be.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Ode to Association Marketing Professionals By ChatGPT In marketing’s realm, an executive ponders, seeking AI’s power, new pathways to wander. ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

Empathy is what helps identify members’ needs and provide products and services that contribute to their well-being and professional success. Deliver creative and impactful solutions by evaluating the emotional impact of strategies. Ask Questions What’s the first advice that people give about networking?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. .

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Then, it’s how you evaluate and refine that message over time. There are a few accepted models for content strategy. Based on audience research, we also built a new “common questions” module for current and prospective students. By student population, UTPB is the smallest of the nine schools in The University of Texas System.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Forj

APRIL 12, 2017

The Internet gives marketers a multitude of frameworks, guidelines, and models to follow. Evaluate your offerings first to think about the impact they have on your learners. Ask yourself these questions when evaluating your course offerings to help you think through what your current offerings provide to your members.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. You’ll notice that right away below the fold. Innovation Trigger.

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