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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How would they engage enough of the global development community to test the prototype, and after that how would they get people to actually use it? Test and improve. Lucy Kimbell: Social Design Menu Method. Make things to explore, test and learn. Develop a clear plan. Clarify priorities. Collect input from others.

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3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. I also get asked about where to get facilitation training for design thinking methods.

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s the method. Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it.

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SXSW 2013 – Social by Global: Failure Is Not An F-Word!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was only there for 48 hours, but I did two workshops on two different topics ( nonprofit social media managers workshop and measurement ), a discussion on impact measurement in the Beacon Lounge , and lighting talk failure Good By Global (the Social Good Summit at SXSW). How can we encourage this as both individually and organizationally?”

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Design by the User, with Inspiration from New York Fashion Week

Forum One

Involving users at each stage of creation—from discovery to low-fi design to product usability testing—brings emerging ideas to the table and amplifies the voices of those at the front lines of health, the environment, education, and all the global issues our work centers.

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How Audience Research Is Keeping Up with a Changing World

Forum One

For example, many organizations have had to shift their resources and budgets to create engaging virtual events and online resources for their constituents, audience research is adapting its modes and methods to better understand the behaviors and needs of new and changing audiences. Diverse research samples result in more inclusive outcomes.

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5 things nonprofits can learn from Wikipedia’s online fundraising campaign

Connection Cafe

Wikipedia supports donations in more than 70 different currencies and 16 payment methods. That’s more than what most nonprofits need to do, but this certainly shows they have down their homework to meet the needs of their global audience. I monitored their mobile friendliness on a variety of different devices during the campaign.