Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

There are no better champions for your organization’s communication’s strategy than your staff. I interviewed Jim Murphy , Senior Online Editor, about how Human Rights Watch ’s integrated social media strategy leverages the personal brands HRW 197 employees to get results. The organizational strategy is to impact policy change.

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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. . This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Chip Conley was the keynote speaker at last week’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp and one thing that he said that has been stuck in my head is: “ You can have a job, a career, or calling “ The latter, a calling, is when you can tap into an internal motivation that fuels and inspires you. It resonated.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Business guru Peter F.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. We want our donors to be advocates. Harness the Power of Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). With evaluation, take into account the “ Kirkpatrick Model of Training ”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Facebook was critical in their strategy. Integrated Content Strategy – Emediat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

They do not view social media as fundraising strategy. Wendy has been working an internal social media capacity builder. Wendy has been working an internal social media capacity builder. She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. They had social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We got started with a welcome from Liane Wong who gave an overview of the program and how it fits into the grantmaking strategy that uses a networked approach. Organizations’ communications strategies have more impact individually and collectively. Integrated Social Media Strategy. Momsrising Layer Cake Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

For quite a few years now there have been sustained clarion calls for the development of learning organizations, more responsive and flexible cultures and for changes to fundamental assumptions and models of effective leadership and management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” ” I spoke with the CEO one-on-one to probe further and learned that he wanted board to focus on strategy and not get involved in micro-managing. They want to combine both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

The morning workshop was on " Social Media Strategy: The Secret Sauce " that offered some pointers on formulating a social media strategy and measuring its success. In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques. It was a fun exercise and participants were brilliant. How do we avoid information overload?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Data visualization techniques are used not only to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. Findings from program data are integrated into decision-making when deciding which policy options and strategies to pursue. Cultural Indicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post. Understand derived value and expectations of your long term social media strategy. The organization recently went through an extensive image/re-branding strategy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Staff members led us in reframing our language to talk about the museum as transforming from a “traditional model to a 21 st century model” instead of failing and then succeeding. While effective as a tool for rapid change, “embrace the chaos” is not a comfortable management strategy. Again, the jury is out.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Discover how-to details and strategies for fast, measurable digital marketing success. Conference on LGBT Engagement and Fundraising Strategies. Fundraising. Feb 22 - 24. 3/3/2016.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path. Tags: children's museums design business models.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. As author David Grossman says, "good internal communication gets the message out, but great internal communication helps employees connect the dots between overarching business strategy and their role.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

SMART is a widely used goal-setting model that can help you clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, use your time and resources wisely, and fulfill your mission. When it comes to fundraising, one of the SMARTest things you can do is develop a fundraising plan for your nonprofit that uses the SMART goal model. Do you have paid staff?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. Strategy, Wealth Management Edition. see here ) In celebration of International Women's Day, Joe's Blog showcases some games that are designed to teach us about this issue, along with ways to support NGO's doing work in this area. Commentary here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010 Do you have a brand strategy? A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood." Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. With that in mind, World of Good has really launched a kind of retail strategy, looking a lot like Hallmark. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. It doesn't work that way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

I put the call out for nonprofit blog posts on the topic of measuring your nonprofit’s marketing or communication strategies. Set Goals by Katie Eickhoff, Social Media Manager/Senior Media Analyst for CARMA International talks that critical first step of the process – goal setting. Want Useful Analytics?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Promote excellent customer service both internally and externally 40. Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Volunteer within your community and allow your employees to volunteer 39. Show trust 41. Encourage peer coaching 42.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This panel will feature leading nonprofits who have succeeded in attracting women donors, and will also include tips from Care2 on how to engage women in your communications strategy. Social Fundraising Success: Strategies & Tools for Activating Your Community **. So you're ready to dive into social fundraising. Not so much.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

It focuses not on single acts of innovation, but on the organizational conditions and management strategies that support natural, frequent innovations. Others are "how" innovators--using unusual techniques to accomplish traditional goals. What differentiates innovation in non-profits and government agencies from that in businesses?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

► 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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