Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them no the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? In this video , Chris Brogan talks about how he manages his time. Photo by hmcotterill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

It''s a valuable, quick, easy-to-read book for a new manager or leader, and a solid read for existing leaders and managers who just need a reminder of Blencoe''s Supermanager''s Seven Principles. I think the management techniques that are discussed in the book are extremely important for several reasons.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 11, 2022

Create discussion groups in your online member community inspired by topics from your career center, such as job interview tips or resume techniques, to deliver a superior member experience. Send them personalized reminder emails about the benefits they could access, at reduced rates, if they joined your organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Drawing on extensive research, including a comprehensive, original workplace survey and in-depth interviews with Millennial managers, Millennials Who Manage , offers teaches Millennial readers how to overcome workplace perceptions and become great leaders. Question : Millennials have been labeled as “the entitled” generation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

You want to do this now, before you meet any candidates, so you can acknowledge, manage, and minimize bias in the hiring process. . Names would get added back in for the interview process. Interview questions. You’ll also want to develop your interview questions now, together with the criteria and evaluation matrix.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this new book, the authors offer practical strategies and techniques to become an authentic leader and reveal how you can navigate your own path to success. These stories reflect more than 222 interviews with leaders–172 leaders interviewed for the original True North book, and more recently 55 interviews for the new book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. The questions will give you insights into a candidate’s self-awareness and behavioral traits prior to the interview so you can get to know the real person before you sit down with them,” shares Jacobs. Building an outrageously talented team.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. completing a skills assessment during the same phase as the second round of interviews). Use automated personalization tools. Highlight value proposition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

The tools that you use to engage supporters online should integrate with your website and, ideally, your database or constituent relationship management (CRM) platform. Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. In the digital age information management is as important as personnel management. Managing your donors, your volunteers, your taxes, your recruitment, your advertising, and your social media outreach will all be carried out digitally.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews. Are you comfortable with managing conflicts or difficult conversations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. Then you interview people on different sides of the scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The opening keynote by Hallie Preskill, Managing Director, FSG talked about the trends setting the stage for new evaluation methods, but also cautioned that these methods would not replace traditional methods. ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

I remember when she started blogging and she was one of my first “ blogger interviews.&# Joitske is an expert in change management and technology adoption and is a trainer who was taught web 2.0 techniques all over the world. We had a lot of sandbox time to explore tagging and other emerging web 2.0 technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Here’s a recent interview with her in the Atlantic (by way of Rheingold). Do you us mindfulness techniques like meditation, taking walks, or other ‘low tech” methods to help you focus or do you rely on “calming” technology tools? ” Distraction by shiny objects is not new. Or a combination?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

During the one-hour free webinar hosted by Wild Apricot , we share some ideas, got feedback, and identified additional people and organizations to interview for the book. Manage Your Energy and Attention. Managing Attention: Beth Kanter Ultradian Cycles and Managing Energy. Understand and Apply Habit Change Frameworks.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

MEET KRISTA WILBUR, CASE MANAGER AND PROGRAM EVENTS COORDINATOR AT AUSTIN ANGELS . Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? Get Registered Now for Free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

They also interviewed a former Google product manager turned interface design ethicist, Tristan Harris , about how tech companies are intentionally creating a large scale epidemic of people getting hooked to their smartphones. He provides techniques to help you answer a simple question, “Does this deserve my attention?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. I pull out a few screen captures and then do an interview with the organization in front of the room. This typically unpacks more insightful information and nuggets of wisdom.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. If you have not read it, please do.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

For instance: Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs): help us track donor interactions and giving histories. Research The first step is finding as much information as you can from your existing analytics. There are so many tools available to us in this day and age to access some really meaningful data about our current donor base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it The book is a great read, a refreshing take on how to manage attention deficit and information overload caused by our connected 24/7 always on lifestyles. She points out that distraction is not the enemy. This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The importance of digital reputation management – stories last forever and can spread quickly. Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. The challenges: Explosion of online media channels.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. If you have not read it, please do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. ” This generated useful tips and suggestions on how to manage an editorial calendar and content strategy process.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

This is where Jason Lewis steps in to provide valuable insight during his interview in episode 89 of The sgENGAGE Podcast, Developing Fundraising Talent. It is the tendency for nonprofit organizations to get in the habit of using very effective new acquisition techniques that generate high volumes at a very low costs to acquire initial gifts.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No matter how much marketing techniques evolve, that equation doesn’t change. In an interview for our Book Association 4.0: Go Beyond Personalization Personalization has been a professional persuader’s go-to convincing technique for some time now. A DXP can totally transform how you manage your company.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. Also, you need, as Jan Gordon points out in the skype video interview, to know the audience’s content consumption patterns and interests. As is my presenting style, this will be an interactive session.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So I’ve run major capital campaigns as big as $600 million and manage budgets $1.2 Maybe it’s because you’re thinking about fundraising or nonprofit management. Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. There’s my bio.

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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. Database Manager. Encourage brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Stress reduction techniques. Managing technology and information overload. We are on a mission to identify and interview people who work for nonprofits about their stories of scaling self-care in their organizations. The topics include: Understanding the pillars of self-care for individuals: sleep, nutrition, exercise.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. I'm sure last week's TechSoup forum on web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Be sure to flip through this deck from TechSoupGlobal, EventBrite, and Social Media 4 Nonprofits chocked full of useful nonprofit event management tips. It is also a good technique to easily capture the digital artifacts from the event to prepare the after story. Many nonprofits use EventBrite for this purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. This is an easy way to get people moving around and wake up, especially if your session is at the end of the day. It is a good idea to include a fun question appropriate to the audience to illustrate the technique. Spectragram.

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