Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2017

Her organization helps youth organizations do program evaluation using data. (If If you are a trainer and looking for interactive ways to teach about using data for improvement, be sure to download their free guide “ Dabbling in Data.”).

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

.” – Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner Research. In addition to reviewing evaluations, you will have a much more accurate picture to support your future planning. This information can provide the answer to some interesting questions such as: Who is my most popular or successful instructor?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Additionally, nine in 10 respondents evaluated their organization’s use of technology as excellent/good across all areas. Manager, Research Content at Salesforce.org. Katharine Bierce manages thought leadership research content on the Salesforce.org marketing team. Katherine Bierce.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

Teach your staff to fish: People aren’t born knowing how to build a major donor pipeline and expertly move folks through this pipeline. strategic planning, budgeting, writing appeals, entering data, running events, researching new prospects, etc.) You have the wrong person in this job; their strengths lie elsewhere.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be. Bush, Ph.D. Bush, Ph.D.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Through the resources at TLCPL, customers can find and evaluate grant funders, download a mailing list of constituents for no cost, perform basic research on prospective donors, draft a strategic plan, and learn about trends across the nonprofit sector. My role is to contextualize those tools and teach customers how to best use them.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” First, do a self-audit to evaluate which nonprofit digital strategy is working for you and which are holding you back. How are you tracking and evaluating what works or doesn’t work? .

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MARCH 31, 2021

At Donorly, we specialize in guiding growing nonprofits through planning campaigns, researching prospective donors, and making successful asks. The strategies you use to research prospective donors and grow your relationships during a capital campaign will naturally need to adapt. . prospect researcher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Course authoring.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on such diverse subjects as Program Evaluation & Information Management, International NGOs, and Philanthropy. My main research interest is in individual and institutional philanthropy. My professional role includes three aspects: teaching, research, and service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Audience Research. My job was the network weaver.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

You may be seeking funds for technology, training, capital improvements, planning, research, materials or other support. Once you plan your project, it will be easier to evaluate specific funding sources (our next step!) Evaluation Plan. For example, an increase in skills of the people you teach. Evaluation Plan.

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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. Tweet questions to me at @annkemery , comment on Excel for Evaluation to request tutorials, or email me to request in-person training. Finally, ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. I have found the ideas and skills described in the book to be invaluable to training and teaching and appreciate having this “recipe” book. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills.

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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. Development.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Empathy I have had the honor of being both a grant researcher/writer/steward and a re-grantor. I know we all can choose to learn and use new problem-solving skills that teach and honor empathy, shared power, and vulnerability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well. According to research, they represent 2-12% of the population in the US. The book offers several simple principles to incorporate: Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Last week, I was in London teaching social media strategy workshops for London NGOs organized by Social Media Misfits and keynoted Institute of Fundraising’s Future of Fundraising Conference. But even when our brains are resting, according to research , our minds are perpetually active internalizing and evaluating information.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup: how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere and grow a business with maximum acceleration. Taking risks in the business sector is considered research and development. It can drive up costs (pharmaceuticals) because of research and development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

There is now enough evidence from research that focusing on resilience in the workplace is an essential strategy for sustainable results. One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also facilitated several design labs with nonprofits as part of the research for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Arts Marketing Project. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy. My Three Words.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. I think that we have a lot to learn about where gamifying is most helpful, but we are so far from the saturation point that we should push ahead with full speed so we can evaluate what works and what doesn’t and make adjustments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. There’s a lot of research and writing about weak links being potentially more powerful than strong ones.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Teach For America. Senior Advisor and Director, Measurement, Evaluation and Organizational Performance. Has 20 years of experience designing, implementing, and leading global programs, research, and evaluation across four continents. Shriners Hospital for Children. Susan Asiyabi. Chief Transformation Officer.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Somatic marker theory , developed by Antonio Damasio and other researchers, hypothesizes strong emotions guide behaviors and subsequent decision making. Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. Did you lose more donors than usual, or keep more than you thought you would?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

If they can no longer make the call, reassign quickly, make the call yourself, or find a VIP on your team to make the “wow” surprise call (imagine how the donor might feel getting a call from a museum curator, doctor in charge of research, playwright, celebrity chef volunteer, lead attorney on a civil rights case, etc.).

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future. Prior to enacting these groundbreaking research practices into your organization.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. The best instructors and course developers are able to evaluate how their student’s learn and cater their offerings to get the best out of the situation. Whereas other ideas were best suited for the minds of my friends.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. " The Role of Libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. Research shows that movement is the killer app for learning. Help participants self-assess their skills or attitudes by seeing aggregate data on the screen together and have it be catalyst for reflection.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. TechSoup has resources on evaluating cloud security and advice for selecting software that helps you comply with HIPAA. What do your constituents get from providing that data?

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