Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By taking advantage of more traditional methods as well as leveraging social media and peer-to-peer fundraising best practices, you’ll be on your way to hosting a winning event! Consider leveraging these best practices: Send thank-you notes. Golf Tournament Fundraisers Golf tournaments are a great way to attract major donors.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To ensure effective project communication, keep in mind these best practices for groups communicating in these virtual channels. Discover why communication tools are important to include for effective project management Google Products Shared Google Sheets and Docs work well to facilitate asynchronous work and communication at a low cost.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Is it easy to see how to give offline? It’s still a much smaller percentage of giving than offline giving, but you don’t want to ignore it. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

I decided to go offline and take a break from blogging, pinning, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest. ” Others offered some good practical advice: Post an unusual (but relevant) photo. But in the quiet and last days of 2012 and the reflective moments in the new year, it was time to face the new year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Edutopia , a project of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an online web site that creates and curates content that is distributed through mobile, social media, video, and offline channels. They also have a robust online community. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. Best practices for effective use of common social media tools: Facebook and Twitter. Next, participants did a self-assessment, using the maturity of practice model ( Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ).

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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. Close Triangles: This is the practice of introducing people in your network to one another. You need to let them know why you are making the introduction and this can be done online or offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

This panel will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. Social Media Smackdown: Online VS Offline Impact - [link] coordinated by Kayta Andresen. The description: Social Media Nonprofit Measurement: Beyond the BS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

And, with resources like “ Like Minded &# that facilitate the fast sharing of best practices, we’re bound to see more. Social fundraising is the practice of using person to person online media to solicit online donations. The report was filled with examples , but more and more are coming to life everyday.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. 8: Practice empathy for the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I also covered some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is building time in for reflection and putting I find out into practice. Sense making is also experimenting and learning by doing. It is also a process that happens, in part, in quiet – and for me that means embracing slowness. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Take Advantage of Creative Generosity: This is good community management practice. Create Once, Publish Everywhere: This tip is a nod to the need to use multiple channels – email, web site, offline, mobile and social. Click to Download. While it may be the dog days of August, GivingTuesday 2014 kicks off on December 4th.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

This Community Engagement Manager position offers the right individual the opportunity to play a crucial role in supporting the NTEN community to connect, learn, and change both on and offline. S/he will also support the other online groups in NTEN’s Communities of Practice (CoP) program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

It’s for people who want to go deeper and get practical know how, improved productivity, and integrate physical and virtual lives. To say that social media facilitates distraction is not to say that social media has to control your awareness – you can take control back and through repeated conscious efforts.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Community manager members were invited to ask their most pressing questions and share their best practices. The talk, facilitated by online community veteran Scott Moore , delved into various facets of online community. How can an online community be moved offline? The topic questions and responses are outlined below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

How to put network weaving into daily practice? What an excellent opportunity to research one’s practice , specifically the trade craft of network weaving. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. 4. Give Them A Couple of Practical Tips or Insights To Solve Their Problems.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Administering continuing medical education (CME) is no simple task— from the advanced accreditation reporting to the ongoing evolution of medical best practices, it can be a huge administrative task for your team. Evolving Medical Practices. Offline use with automatic sync. Decreased Non-Dues Revenue. Responsive design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. Her practical tips — like “start by tweeting one or articles you read at work in the morning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

I shared a few points about nonprofits use of social media, including a maturity of practice model called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly. “ This prompted discussion about the similarities and differences in practice between nonprofits and foundations and how to move to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2017

During this time, many nonprofits reviewed their email marketing programs for compliance, and Blackbaud ensured all of our products used to send email facilitated your ability to do so. To be honest, the rules under CASL closely mirror email marketing best practices, so hopefully you already have most of them in place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. Radio Bilingue. Click to See Larger Image.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

This Community Engagement Manager position offers the right individual the opportunity to play a crucial role in supporting the NTEN community to connect, learn, and change both on and offline. S/he will also support the other online groups in NTEN’s Communities of Practice (CoP) program.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Make sure that your software's private messages facilitate a private response within the community itself.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. Personal Productivity in Practice. In a nutshell, the advice is to spend time on the important tasks first and practice good delegation skills. What is personal productivity? It is all about managing your attention.

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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. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. What needs are you trying to fulfill for yourself online that could be better met offline?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

31% of offline-only first-time donors are retained for over a year , versus 25% of online-only first-time donors. Also, make sure to follow writing best practices by keeping your paragraphs short and using bolded text strategically to draw attention. Direct mail is the most popular year-end giving marketing method.

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