Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

3. Do you have a model for a ladder engagement? You may remember that last year we ran an online campaign called “ Tag ,” where participants pledged volunteer time and then “tagged” their friends to do the same. But the recent full breakdown uses the 1337 number). Pledges to Get Affiliated/Trained: 129 (Goal 250).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The mental model mapping can uncover conflict, make it discussable, and enhance effectiveness. Each type of mapping has specific benefits.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

" in which we (the people) got the power to publish, share, comment, friend, follow, tag, and organize online. model this past summer with a project to craft recommendations that improve teacher evaluation systems nationwide. "Recommendations Tags: Collaboration. First came "Web 2.0"

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

There are a TON of lists out there that identify the top _# of things to do for really anything you want to explore (whether it’s building a model or building an organization). By evaluating what resources you already have on hand in the organization, you are much more prepared to fully examine your options. Evaluation.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2010

Beth Kanter has a terrific post about evaluating nonprofit commitment and investment in sponsored fundraising contests. Tags: Online Fundraising. But as Frogloop reported last month , online fundraising grew overall by 4.5% This decline was driven by a drop in the average gift size. Do we have a relationship? Do they get social media?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Potlucks are a great model for “good sharing.” standpoint: you create and share an item that reflects you you enjoy the items shared by others all items are subconsciously evaluated by all users (and those evaluations thus reflect on all users) These three steps could easily define a web 2.0 This is the MySpace model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation. He described the challenges of adapting evaluation methods to non-Western systems in developing countries because evaluation has traditionally been deeply rooted in the Western ways of thinking.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Not in San Francisco?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Not in San Francisco?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

The evaluation and recognition of peer influence, something that is not only prevalent but inherent in social media, is something that help empower and sustain your communities AND increase your staff capacity. Tags: community otherblogs control permission report ssir strategy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around. Tags: Facebook ROI (Return on Investment) Social Media.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, most nonprofit CRMs share a few standard features to help nonprofits evaluate and act on donor data. Essential nonprofit CRM features Different software solutions prioritize different features to help you assess donor data in different ways. Salesforce Salesforce is used by both for-profit and nonprofits alike.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In this resource-strapped environment, it's arguable that not considering open source options seriously when evaluating your software toolbox is a disservice to your organization, board, constituents, and clients. . and licensing models. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff. Current Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Evaluate the outcome. Tags: web2.0 This positions the museum at the center of the action, gives you an easy way to track online activity, and provides a useful service for participants to aggregate their content. Did you get what you wanted? If not, consider whether this is the right partner and where better friendships might be found.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. Specifically, we recommend seeking an LMS with the following capabilities: Question banking, categorization, and tagging. eLearning Pricing Models: 5 Ways to Price Your Courses. The Complete Guide.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2009

You haven't thought about revising your business model in a decade. More organizations are doing program evaluation than before, and that's fantastic. But evaluation only addresses the past while suggesting a future path. Evaluation is part of innovation, but not all of it. " Tags: innovation NPTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

The answer comes from Eugene Eric Kim in a recent presentation he did about networks, "Be the Change You Want To See" - it's about modeling. I love the way they've made fun for the capture team to document the conference and their evaluation questionnaire. Tags: backchannel. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 21, 2006

Explore and adopt new collaborative business models with complementary organizations. Adopt appropriate metrics that enable organizations to evaluate the success and impact of their delivery of services and programs. Tags: nptech , management Engage board members to ensure quality governance structures.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My model is the shining star. I draw design lessons from outside models all the time, so "creative thievery" approach feels natural to me. I want to make a well-documented model to serve as an engine of new physical ideas. I imagine that many of you who read this blog are interested in outside models for innovation in museums.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

The rise of avant garde performances by Stomp, the Blue Man Group, and most notably, Cirque de Soleil, have changed the landscape of the circus—and by extension, the way museum people should evaluate and judge themselves against entertainment venues. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. How would YouTube do a museum?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Tags: sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. More modern and of a higher quality than comparable on-premise solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. Understand how the model works , but don't get distracted. This is evaluating your performance in relation to other blogs in your space using the same metrics. . Tags: socialmediametrics RSS. Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Evaluate if the style and tone fit the intended audience and goals. Critique the previous reply, pointing out the flaws in thinking Rewrite the response based on this evaluation Summarizing Key Points Distill the core ideas from the previous reply into a concise 5 sentence summary.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. More modern and of a higher quality than comparable on-premise solutions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. In particular, I've enjoyed digging into the workshops that were held on Education , Business Models , Technology and Ops , Curation and Research , and Directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

However, there was also a plea not to make evaluation painful, collecting huges amount of data and not using it to improve a program. Ben Rattray mentioned: The vast majority of social good platforms have failed because they have modeled social good platforms on commercial applications. Tags: socap09. They don't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Tags: sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models? It also creates transparency, by giving the entire project team a chance to evaluate what's going on regularly, and to re-prioritize work based on what they've learned as the project unfolds. Where do our ideas about IT come from?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

How do you evaluate your programs and services? You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell how to actually take action, or how to really get the work done, there’s no way they can jump in and help step the movement forward. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? We need organizations, like 350.org

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. Tags: children's museums design business models. Science is science, and grocery store exhibits are grocery store exhibits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. And I also struggled with the consulting business model. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Tags: ROI.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , drupal , idealware , plone , security { 1 trackback } Confluence: Office of the CTO 04.13.09 If you can’t publish a responsible security evaluation, then don’t publish one. I also think that the Joomla and WordPress communities take security seriously. In our estimation, they were all really good.

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