Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Your nonprofit feels ready or has a clear need to bring in a skilled consultant, but how do you find the right one? . This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Evaluation matrix .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you? About the Author.

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Websites Analytics Project Proposal 304

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Additionally, there are also AI-enhanced tools your organization can take advantage of to supplement skills you don’t have expertise in. It can also evaluate your campaigns and programs to find the most successful strategies for you to use to fundraise more efficiently. AI-enhanced editing tools.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Analysis Donor 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Sense-making is the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed – and in a world with so much information, it is a critical workplace skill.

Content 123

Content San Francisco Technique Skills 123

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. Ask if anyone has any questions. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results.

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

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.

Activities 105

Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

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. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning.

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Training Train Technology Instructional Design 114

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

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. The people with skills are out there.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Assess Your Current Digital Footprint: The inventory not only includes web sites and presences that you’ve set up, but that others have. The points include: 1) notice the situation; 2) evaluate the situation; 3) Respond to the situation.

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Digital Technique United States Social Media 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Fluency in social media skills. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. Take the time to evaluate this list and see if any of it could be applicable to your organization.

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Culture Learning Create Industry 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. This is evaluation.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Schein calls “ Humble Inquiry ” – the art of asking questions based on curiosity and building trust. It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust.

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Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. It was great to have a co-trainer who knew the subject matter, fluent in English, and who understood group facilitation skills and training approaches. I do not speak Spanish.

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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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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

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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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curators have integrated this skill into their daily routine. Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. You don’t need to do it for hours, but a little bit everyday will help you develop and hone the skills. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources.

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Content Skills Feeds Tutorial 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

and elsewhere, and on these social networking sites there is at least the basic evaluation of how many others link to the sites. The follow up question is something like, how I can find nonprofit blogs on xyz topic or what blogs would you recommend. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill.

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Skills Wiki Taxonomy Listserv 50

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 is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it.

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. There were some excellent “burning questions” that folks shared about nonprofit training. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. . — Rachel Hassinger (@solidarity4just) March 15, 2014.

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Training Train Reflection Resource 100

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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Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The organization integrates simple measurement techniques and learning as an organizational habit that helps improve practice and documents results from the beginning of every networked approach. Organizations in this category also need to focus on using more sophisticated measurement techniques , tools, and processes.

Social Media 101

Social Media Practice Media Social 101

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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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

How to Evaluate Your Leadership Style By Ken Blanchard, Co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life Today, I'm going to give a short, one-question quiz. Here's the question: How do you rate as a leader? I don't ask this question flippantly. These are the folks who know you best.

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Authoring Leadership Evaluation Life 69

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. I want the best for you, this is a little bit more interpersonal skills, of course. You can also use Twitter.

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People Community Video Podcast 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. To complement the Playbook, we organized a Peer Learning Exchange where participants could gather, share ideas and ask questions.

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Knowledge Goal Share Giving 100

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece.

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Reflection Research Question Museum 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Forgive me, as I am going to tackle this sideways, as your answer brought up a different question for me: am I a ludologist or a narratologist? SR: while I think games are great for museums, it can be incredibly helpful for museum pros to work with others to hone their skills. It’s hard to describe, but man it was fun to play.

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Game Museum Design Digital 55

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. And like those other core functions, we must examine our technology and data strategies to properly evaluate and prioritize our needs and successfully build our digital capacity. Feb 21 - 24.

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