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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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! A quick focus on the solutions without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It isn’t a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem. Real-Time Feedback/Evaluation is different from development evaluation which is directed towards a purpose to do something. Police use real-time evaluation to allocate their resources. ” Program development has to be ongoing, emergent.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

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Majora Carter is on a quest to save the world one community at a time. Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time!

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit.

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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

Define the problem from your stakeholder’s point of view. Establish A Singular Variable: Don’t try to test more than one variable at a time – just pick one thing to test. Here is a case study of Red versus Green. Here’s the method. You could pick any channel, social or otherwise to set up an a/b test hypothesis.

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

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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. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.