Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo.

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For example, if you work for a food bank, a clear, magnetic vision might be to end hunger in your community. Here’s a great example from Best Friends Animal Society with their BHAG of taking the entire U. For example, Habitat for Humanity might say “we make sure that everyone has a safe, decent, affordable place to live.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

Photo by Jim Nickerson. Photo by Jim Nickerson. Leadership Technique: Leaders that do walking meetings can accommodate the many requests for their time. I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? This was followed by each couple talking from the heart about their experience working together or presenting some examples of their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

He describes a simple technique of taking 5 minutes every morning to write down 3 important tasks to accomplish and then reminding yourself every hour as to whether you have completed those tasks using your iPhone alarm. And then reflecting at the end of the day for 5 minutes about what you accomplished.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

For example, last year's vacation in Florida and my encounter with an alligator on from an airboat on the St. I could have created guest author accounts, but I could not figure out a way where I could approve a post in draft and have it also include photos. See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques).

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Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. For example, USA for UNHCR is using images of refugee camps to create models that can predict how different buildings are used. Machine learning models reflect the underlying biases and inequities implied in the data used to train them. LEARN MORE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. Connecting Up Master Class. Circle and Workspace in New Zealand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I suspect I’m not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Photo by James Leventhal. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. The ten steps was originally tailored for a nonprofit technology and nonprofit audience -- so some of the examples were not as relevant to the audience as the new ones that I had researched.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Photo by Beth Kanter. 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. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model.

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For example: if you know that your average donor gives you ~$70, that some of your donors give $100+, and that a large portion of your donors give at the $25 level, you can make some solid predictions about how your donors will interact with your campaign. Gift range chart. Understand the Giver’s Journey. Optimize your online donation form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Absolutely brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Use Time Management Techniques.

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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 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. For example, social media campaigns are now part of planning for entire seasons instead of trying to sell tickets to one-off shows. Have a passion for the art, and the technique will follow.” Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

It recommends links and photos while you write. I also didn't like the photos it recommended (and in fact one it suggested was all rights reserved). In some ways, I found using it counter-intuitive to my thinking and reflection process. For example, I might not start with a specific a topic in mind.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. Yes and no. I frankly think this is ridiculous. culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. What questions are you asking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. Photo Views. For example, questions work, particularly those that accompany a link to a good post. Tagging photos. I look at the following metrics: Total Interactions. Unsubscribes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of. Maybe he share some reflections in the comments - like for example - about the making of the video which is quite good in terms of production values, although not glossy campaign video. She points out why she likes the campaign: 1 ???

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These visuals can make abstract numbers more tangible, showing, for example, how many individuals benefited from your services or the scale of volunteer involvement over the course of a year. Storytelling techniques Craft these stories with care, using narrative techniques that engage the emotions of your readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

NPtech Colleagues: @zanarama Zan McColloch Lussier @ericamills Erica Mills @seattledrury Peter Drury photo by Akhtar. I incorporated examples from people in the room and then asked them talk about it. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Photo by Thorny Pup. Reflections and questions. Techniques like this can help build momentum. For example, John Kenyon - suggested some excellent community resources. Las week we worked on Module 5: Online Engagement Strategies. Alexandra suggests that you offer incentives or rewards for participation. Nancy White.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this. Yes and no. I frankly think this is ridiculous. culture.

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