The MatrixFiles

JUNE 20, 2023

Each belt is associated with specific forms, kicks and techniques. The post Leadership Lessons from the Martial Arts appeared first on Matrix Group International. But perhaps taking the punch means you learn something new or it positions you for the next move. Create a professional development ladder.

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Arts Lesson Leadership Student 245

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

You’ll notice that the application they’re using allows them to pull out the moderator’s tweets on the side. A couple of Twitter moderator techniques I used to try to get some deeper insights from the discussion: I had a search open on #sm73 the whole time. What are your best Twitter moderation techniques?

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Technique Twitter Facilitation Reflection 99

Nimble AMS

APRIL 2, 2022

Using the right tools and techniques makes it easy to get more out of your association’s online community. . You just need the right tools and techniques in place to take it to the next level. . Create a newcomer group where new members can ask questions and discuss topics so that they feel at home in your association right away.

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Community Online Associations Template 139

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Far too many groups are not focusing their fundraising efforts on wide-scale donor acquisition efforts. Groups need to be willing to embrace them to see increasing returns on the health of their development programs. Far too often, I see groups that end here. Gone are the days of list acquisitions and swapping of mailing lists.

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Social Media Donor Media Social 353

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association, will share how APA used these techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. That’s just the teaser for unique engagement strategies and persuasive techniques that you won’t learn about from anyone else. Sponsored by Multiview.

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Sponsor Associations North America Law 221

.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

If your group is more sigh than sizzle, you need to meet Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey. Harriet’s going to explain how APA used convincing techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. We wrote two books on Association 4.0 How can we stay ahead of the competition? These two are experts at getting noticed.

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Sponsor Associations Law Hype 275

Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders. They can even be done virtually!

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Audience Design Exercise Test 72

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? We’ll follow with 10 minutes to group ideas around common themes. The participants focus on the group memory, which becomes a living record of everyone’s contributions.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. As a group we spend time clustering similar ideas before reviewing them. It does require a learning curve to master in addition to the technique.

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Online Participatory Technique Method 113

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Mentoring Policy Review Technique 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Which one you select depends on the activity and group dynamics.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. Here are a few areas to give your staff the freedom to experiment: Emerging tools and techniques: Have employees play around with tools and techniques relevant to technology-powered fundraising.

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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

These features let groups focus on their resources. Exploring Advanced Strategies AI-driven fundraising uses a wide range of techniques. Then, it can craft custom messages for different donor groups. It will use the groups’ preferences to ensure effective communication. Also, the platform makes communication easier.

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Donation Data Fundraising Analytics 203

Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

They should be able to: Suggest discussion group topics and content?. Plan to give your members access to this type of content right off the bat to make them feel part of a group and benefit them professionally. Determine which groups you’ll launch with your community. A few groups to consider including in your initial launch:?.

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Community Online Strategy Guidelines 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

Professional 111

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Reflection Professional Facilitation San Jose 73

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Interview Technique Skills Generation 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

Professional 96

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Technique Interview Skills Generation 86

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Sometimes the better bet is to begin low, and this is bolstered by a technique called “ foot in the door.” It’s often used by sales people, and is especially useful if your prospect is new and this may be their first gift to you. This technique can be flipped for current donors by using something called “ door in the face.”

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Gift Technique Charity Brain 93

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The Grossman Group has launched its new Take5 ™ to Communicate Well three part e-learning course designed to teach managers at all levels how to plan and deliver effective communications to their employees. The Grossman Group specializes in strategic leadership and internal communication.

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Course Group Communication Learning 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Mentoring Policy Technique News 79

CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

We sat down with Diane Remin, the Founder and President of MajorDonors.com , to discuss techniques on making an ask and how major gift work has transitioned online as a result of the pandemic. She is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and the Planned Giving Group of New England. 10,000-$100,000).

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Money Donor Tips Technique 64

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These grant forms enabled TAG to not only determine the level of overlap between questions (39 percent) but also to identify groups of shared questions. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques.

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Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

This socially responsible group is particularly drawn to inclusive organizations whose clear values align with their own. Team fundraising introduces gamification, which is a fancy word for an online marketing technique intended to inspire engagement with a product or service.

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Fundraising Cancer Raise Nonprofit 313

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Icebreakers for Teams Collection Select from over 300 icebreakers based on how well the group knows each other. Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. How To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms by Beth Kanter. Sticky Dot Voting Online by Beth Kanter. List of Energizers. Planning and Design.

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Tips Online Facilitation Camera 173

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Can this technique work for an online meeting?

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Online Technique Training Train 107

Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2019

By focusing efforts on mega-gifts, you’re pouring an immense amount of capital into a very small group that isn’t getting younger. But again: this is a difficult group to scale; what happens in retail and big-box stewardship will drive results with the rest of our constituency.

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Technique Fundraising Gift Relationship 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. Round Robin.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

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

MARCH 24, 2020

I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. Group check-ins or icebreakers allow us to become more connected as humans as well as name, claim and move on from distractions and focus on the meeting at hand. I’ve done this with small groups of ten and also on larger calls with several hundred.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

EveryAction

APRIL 23, 2015

Focus on the muscle group you’re working. Just like lifting more weight, raising more money requires proper technique. D o some jumping jacks to get the blood flowing. Don’t arch your back. Inhale as you lift. Major gift prospects are the heavy weights of the fundraising world. fundraising guest post major gifts prospect research'

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Gift Research Technique Help 100

Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

As an email subscriber, each week you’ll get a new “micro” essay about 1 principle or technique. Blogs Veritus Group. Very Good Copy. VeryGoodCopy is a newsletter about copywriting & creativity. I implemented just one of Eddie’s suggestions and saw engagement soar! SOFII The Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration.

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Resource Newsletter Case Study Nonprofit 98