Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here. What surprises you?

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. How you proceed will vary depending on your organization’s goals and resources. Leverage ChatGPT to generate reports, articles, and newsletters.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Give everybody a turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. I also use it as a year in review tool. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I also use it as a year in review tool. I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Year in Review. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. a focus on what you have mastered to "we don’t know."

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

The company reviews the submission, ensures the donation adheres to its program guidelines, and disperses a matching gift to the same organization. It often involves rallying the company’s employees and encouraging them to give generously to reach a team-wide goal. or gamification techniques (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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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 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. He suggests setting year-long goals. The same discipline applies to setting an annual goals. This is similar to the pomodoro technique. What did you accomplish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As part ongoing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am designing, facilitating, and delivering workshops with Compasspoint. Last week, I had the great pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop with colleagues Holly Minch , JD Lasica , Janet Fouts , and Susan Tenby. Learns from experience and data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Back in November, 2014, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans published an article about “New Power” in the Harvard Business Review that caught my eye. The goal is not to hoard it but to channel it. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. ” Peter described the findings from research by Dr. ” One method that some nonprofits engage in to improve an event or campaign is an “ After Action Review.,”

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Remember your goal is persuading consumers. The goal is to develop sustained relationships through habitual positive exposures. Their long-form copy and primetime targeting were more effective for their goals. Review tactics like monthly giving programs and recurring emails that generate habitual support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. Mobile phone cameras that have touch screen allow you focus with your fingers. Simply touch your subject.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Often overwhelmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Because of this, you must understand your goal for the partnership before researching consultants to ensure you find the right one for your team. There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs. Review your candidates.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. All fundraisers know that their main goal is to raise money, but not all of them think about sustainability or scalability. Realistic fundraising goal. Let’s begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. Why not have look at the connections of your staff/board in LinkedIn related to achieving a goal or even just to recruit new board members. The room was silent.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

A great change management technique, build (or re-engineer) your policies in a collaborative way.? Review the data you capture – and the data you want to capture – and determine who owns/uses what. . Make it a goal to hear: “I didn’t know you did all that” or “that’s more complicated than I thought.”?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. What are your goals for your site? The start of the new year is the perfect time for reviewing your technology and making improvements of any size. Is it performing well? Visual Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. Sometimes before they ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The problem is that walking is perceived as a “break activity,” not part of work as explained in this Harvard Business Review blog post, “ Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It A Break.” The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique.

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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. Writing reviews didn’t seem fair when so many things were in flux.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Stanford Social Innovation Review / Stanford, CA / $800. Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Along the way, we’ll review some examples of effective emotional appeals pulled from Kanopi’s roundup of best nonprofit websites. Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists. Understand your audience. Include images of people.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Whether through firsthand product testing, genuine customer reviews, or authentic travel accounts, incorporating real experiences into content creation enhances trust and authority. PageSpeed can be optimized through techniques like image compression, browser caching, and minimizing server response times.

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