Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. 3. The Evaluation Survey. Documentation.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Junior Achievement USA is an organization with over 100 local Areas that empowers the next generation by providing lessons in financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship. Use a fundraising thermometer Fundraising thermometers are a great tool for both donation forms and event registration pages.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Wherever you are, and whatever the kind of community you are wrangling, there are some general lessons that I recommend. I hope you’ll share your lessons, too! You know more about the tools. Well, those are my five; but I have no doubt there are many more lessons and assumptions out there.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Storytelling is an invaluable tool for non-profits. A narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale. Now, before I lose you to the in-the-weeds grammar lesson, let me tell you why this distinction is important. That means it’s what we are doing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

In order to get set up and start using the Donation Sticker, your nonprofit must do two main things: Sign up for charitable giving tools on Facebook (if you haven’t already – if you are registered with Facebook payments, you do not need to complete this step again), and. You can check out her website at: jcsocialmarketing.com/blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For many nonprofits, Google Analytics is the tool of choice for measuring traffic, reach, engagement, and action primarily because it is free. While it is somewhat easy to use, some of the more valuable features may require a little tutoring to understand and use.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Instead, interactive tools, customization, and smart strategy allow nonprofits to go far beyond this to involve supporters in meaningful actions online that accomplish their mission. These experiences offer lessons for organizations of any size to re-imagine what it means to build community online.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

You’ll get access to your own temporary workshop org and follow along with step-by-step instructions, guided LIVE by our adoption experts! Spread the word to your Salesforce.org super-user colleagues or those wanting to gain more tools to propel their missions forward amidst all that is unfolding in the world. Reason #4: The Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nonprofit Fundraising Support One of my favorite pieces of Greater Giving is that they have a robust Help section with a plethora of articles, instructions, and tutorial videos to teach new and experienced users alike the correct way to set up each of the elements in the software to best support your unique event. It was a nightmare!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

There are also analytics tools that look at your social media presence, such as how many people are visiting your site from Facebook, Twitter, etc. Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics tools out there due to its easy-to-access web interface and fairly straightforward features. Google also has a series of lessons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Through the E-Mediat program, Essmaani participants also gained tools on how to recruit volunteers on line and how to promote their activities using social media. In Morocco, the team has been sharing case studies about how NGOs have put the lessons in the workshop into practice. View more documents from E-Mediat.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

The hour usually flies by; the facilitator creates a Storify of the chat for our archives; and we take our lessons learned back to our respective workplaces. It is their stories and examples and lessons that really resonate with me,” says BJ Wishinsky, who most recently led a chat called Calling All Calls to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

His post reflects on his years of “learning in action” on his instructional practice of peer-to-peer, global learning via social web. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students. The ultimate test of peer learning is to organize a course without the direction of an instructor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

(Disclaimer: I’m a proud board member of Ushahidi ): “A handful of people, working with cheap tools and little time or money to spare, managed to carve out enough collective goodwill from the community to create a resource that no one could have imagined even five years ago. They will help when they are invited to.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In 264 pages, Dixon, with ten years of classroom experience in public, private and charter schools, shares his deep knowledge of social media to provide detailed descriptions of the best online tools available for school leaders. Long gone are the days of open houses and photocopied newsletters.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

The hour usually flies by; the facilitator creates a Storify of the chat for our archives; and we take our lessons learned back to our respective workplaces. It is their stories and examples and lessons that really resonate with me,” says BJ Wishinsky, who most recently led a chat called Calling All Calls to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

We facilitated over 200 nonprofit techies ( editoral advisory group , subject matter experts , and wiki members ) who contributed ideas, writing, copy-editing, lesson plans, presentations , and knowledge to build an impressive social media knowledge resource for the community. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?" Top Books About Leadership.

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Everyaction

JULY 2, 2018

This extensive report offers analysis of generational wealth data, in-depth case studies of multiple nonprofits’ planned giving efforts, and detailed instructions on how to approach planned giving conversations with your donors. Here are 10 of the biggest findings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . Growing My Instructional Chops. Stay tuned for that!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2012

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?" Top Books About Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

I'm working with an afterschool program/ctc lab to develop an instructional technology plan. In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. These can be easily blogged as mini-lessons.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. One of the many lessons that 2020 taught us is that the way society at large operates can change on a dime. Responsive design.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. That list of uses is apt: xAPI is the tool organizations should be using to study the efficacy, engagement, and value of online education.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

As an educator, I know that lessons learned and questions raised from this experience will substantively shift how I think about and act upon our relationship with our local creative community moving forward. What exactly about this space is inspiring visitors and how can we apply these lessons to other collection areas beyond textiles?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Yet still I see them as beautiful lessons in how we all want to participate. The other participants teach you how to play. That's the key.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you read the instructions and confirm your eligibility. But I am very, very heartened to see that the vast majority of you read the instructions and confirm eligibility first. Let’s start with reading the instructions, which is the most important step. Step 2 happens in conjunction with reading the instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Browse Internet related sources online comlpeting mini lessons posted in blog * Write a poem in their blog * Bookmark their blog page/poem/post in delicious using selected words as tags * Find another student's delicious bookmarked post with the same tag * Link to it from their poem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. Technology is a dehumanizing.

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