Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

You will find answers to questions like, “Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?” ” Plus many more provocative questions. This is one of my favorite books about instructional design, especially if you are designing professional development activities for nonprofit staff or other trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The points include: 1) notice the situation; 2) evaluate the situation; 3) Respond to the situation. The books is filled with techniques and best practices for getting people to be more civil online and how to handle the people that just can’t be civilized.

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See3

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Using stop motion technique more common with animation, it is a nice way to get people to pay attention to something pretty mundane. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Sure they do, but so does an engaging story. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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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. It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting. How much time can they devote each week?

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Then when it comes down to writing up a formal policy, take the following practical continuous learning foundations into consideration: An Open Environment – Establish to your employees early on that it is ok to ask questions when something is not understood.

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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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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 professional tools will cost money, but can process higher volumes of information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

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. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder?

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." In mid-November, Idealware held one of its free webinars to address this question. Where can a charity even start to get a handle on this? spanhidden.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. 2019 Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning. Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation. What are your questions about content curation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Crowdsourcing can be done at an organizational level, blended into the way nonprofits create , implement, and evaluate their programs.

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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. Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence.

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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

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. They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities.

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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. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

So, we as professionals need to begin to truly embrace the concept as an evolving practice. In fact, quite the contrary it is meant to be informative, taken at face value, and tested so that there is no question about its intent, or encroaching gray area surrounding what elements can be governed within an organization.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The book of the same title that he edited is rocking my world, both as a museum professional who cares about inclusion and as a new mother. So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. Direct questioning.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

BJ: Most games I have designed through museums have been in partnership - with professional game designers, with high school students, with scientists (and other content experts), and with digital developers (that AR component of the pterosaurs card game was amazing). What’s your favorite part? How about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Technology and Its Emerging Impact on Foundation Communications " is a new report that describes how philanthropy communications professionals are using social media. The 45 page report is based on an extensive literature search and interviews with Philanthropy professionals who are currently experimenting with Web 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Getting Started With Your Nonprofit Business Plan The most common question we get about business plans is “where do we start?” A good plan answers a number of who, what, when, where questions like these: What problem is your nonprofit trying to solve? Evaluation Plan. What are the exact goals you are trying to achieve?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. The leadership environment Leaders (whether on a team, in a department or institution-wide) have to be open to taking risks, trying new things, evaluating and learning from failures. Or the tables?

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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.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This isn't just a rhetorical question. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. Making sure each department can access its data to answer their questions.&#. Tips for Making the Switch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Another fun role is “Rabbit Hole Monitor” that uses a technique called “ ELMO ” (enough already let’s move on). A great meeting or training starts with a great icebreaker.Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax and ease people into a group meeting or learning situation.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

A guide could include personality assessment results, but it can be just as useful to skip the assessment and share things such as: Priorities Individual goals Professional strengths Communication style and pet peeves Preferences for receiving feedback and praise 2. Meeting people where they are is another act of inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

This is the second time this spring that I've participated in a professional development experience that is more like summer camp than a conference, and I am sold. I saw a lot of that at C2, and it allowed me to connect with new people in a space that acknowledged the intersections between personal and professional. It was incredible.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

80% of nonprofit professionals agree that a strong digital presence is crucial. SEO is a set of techniques for making your website more discoverable to people using search engines to find information. After all, the more people that find and interact with your cause online, the more potential awareness and even donations you can drive.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. What worked?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good. Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum / Orlando, FL / $945. Annual Conference for Media Relations Professionals. Agents of Change Summit. Fundraising.

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