Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. This is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. A structured process has a number of benefits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Data should inform and optimise your fundraising strategy , and attribution is a simple technique you can use to really help you get it right. The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. Your own UTM generator. Tell me all about attribution.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Lead Generation. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Generate, analyze and present reports. Sales Activities. Automation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Design Strategy Digital Technique 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first? Generate new ideas. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

How much would John pay for rent and how should we structure it? So we structured the rent in a “base with kicker” format. We tabulated all the top priorities by votes to generate a ranked list. What techniques have you used to set priorities for a big, complicated negotiation? That’s all we knew going into negotiations.

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By using the right SEO techniques your website will rise in search engine rankings and receive more traffic. If you have a new site, SEO can help generate traffic and visibility. For example, if you’re confident your site’s structure is optimised, a volunteer SEO consultant may develop a keyword or link-building strategy.

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NetWits

JANUARY 9, 2011

How do you go about generating copy for your website? Below are some tips to help ease you back into the world of content generation in the new year, and which should help your website gain more traction with your community. Consider structuring your copy in the following manner: The features of your program/offering/point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Recently, I’ve been reading the ideas from The Presencing Institute (PI), an action-research community that “creates social technologies, builds capacities, and generates holding spaces for profound societal renewal.” The structure of awareness and attention determines the pathway along which a situation unfolds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since it wasn’t my idea, I had to generate interest in and passion for the project. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. By book number three, I had that down to 18 months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. Perhaps we are confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Since it wasn’t my idea, I had to generate interest in and passion for the project. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. By book number three, I had that down to 18 months.

Story 52

Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s given structure to what was a wild wild west approach to reaching out to our community.” Nelson Layag, Training Director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services says “Having an editorial calendar has anchored a team-based approach to communications.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Humans are creative, while AI is generative. Humans can invent new ideas and solutions based on emotions, relationships, and a host of other circumstances related to consciousness, while AI systems can only generate new outputs based on existing data. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain.

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Language Problem Knowledge System 221

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. In the book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness, and (World Peace) , author Chade-Meng Tan offers 3 simple techniques to practice mindful conversations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

However, no matter how altruistic we want to believe we are, people also like reciprocity and that means making a contact might generate something advantageous in the future. Now, there is extensive literature on effective networking techniques that are tested and true (I implore you to Google “effective networking”; it’s exhausting).

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Network Phoenix Arizona Contact 89

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Since it wasn’t my idea, I had to generate interest in and passion for the project. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. By book number three, I had that down to 18 months.

Story 49

Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media. No matter the approach, it is useful to have a structured approach and track trends over time. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross.

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Practice Free Share Reflection 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends. Engaging with alumni networks is about connecting before alumni become alumni, while they are still students. It is also about reconnecting with those who have already graduated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. The internet is structured around sites that have unique URL addresses. This map itself illustrates such structurally important things as groups (cliques), bridges between groups, and which organizations are best connected. .

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Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Since it wasn’t my idea, I had to generate interest in and passion for the project. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. By book number three, I had that down to 18 months.

Storytelling 40

Storytelling Chapter Story Teach 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Since it wasn’t my idea, I had to generate interest in and passion for the project. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. By book number three, I had that down to 18 months.

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Teach Story Storytelling Chapter 40

Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Generating and maintaining prospect lists. Leave room in your budget for innovation and agility in the face of unforeseen “bumps” or golden opportunities along the fundraising road.

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Guide Fundraising Nonprofit Template 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. applications as a way to actively engage conversations between Airmen and the general public." Nonprofits are also using listening to support improved program implementation.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. They understand that strong compensation structures are essential for building a scalable, sustainable organization that retains its talent and grows year over year. Top Nonprofit Consulting Firms by Specialty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information. Whether you agree or disagree with the concept, there’s a fundamental attraction, and empirical evidence, to its utility.

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join us and hundreds of fundraising and marketing professionals at the Washington Nonprofit Conference, a two-day event where you will exchange innovative marketing and fundraising ideas, generate insightful solutions and think creatively to help you make the relationship with your donors even stronger. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In my experience, the best participatory experiences are as constrained and clear as possible in the invitation offered, and as open-ended as possible in the outcome generated. The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. Constrain the input, free the output. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

People 76

People Community Video Podcast 76

Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

The webinar will also dive into the major barriers to multichannel marketing, such as organizational structure, separate online and offline budgets, and lack of data integration. See case studies and data on what’s working and what’s not. Prior to joining Defenders in 2004, Jeff spent 12 years in the private sector.

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South Africa Colorado Congo Case Study 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. Something to think about when we look at whether we've generated commenting. Relating this back to the cross conversation within blog post thread, there is the technique of weaving. Source: Skelliewag.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

With the most recent onset of generative AI-powered tools becoming mainstream and accessible to all organizations, SEO is discussed more and more. How effective can it be alongside generative AI? Create quality long-form content Consistently generating new and high-quality content is fundamental for effective SEO.

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International Strategy Search Structure 91

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Making structural updates to the backend of your site is much more tech-heavy (and will likely require the help of experts) than more surface-level improvements to the frontend. Sharing updates and information on your campaigns or projects.

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