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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. In this segment I interview Jonny Goldstein about how to shoot video without shooting yourself in the foot in the editing room. We discussed the pros/cons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. A willingness to engage about what to do to make your program better. Evaluation is not about getting to a best practice that can be spread around the world in a standardized way and to answer the question, “Is everyone following the recipe?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Why get good at Excel?

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Your survey may include questions around: Demographics : Age, gender, location, occupation Background: Why are they interested in your cause and what led them to get involved? Only ask questions you cannot find the answers too. She prefers to support initiatives that focus on spaying/neutering, adoption programs, and education.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

The question simply becomes how much to ask for. You need to be able to answer these questions if you want to get into a donor’s heart: What kinds of words do they use? Note, however, that if you survey your donors or ask questions of a potential donor, you have to learn to read the answer behind the answer. Boring feels safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yesterday, I honored to fill in as MC and interviewer for Darian Rodriguez Heyman at the Nonprofit Fundraising Masters event. (Darian was welcoming his first child, a boy, into the world!). ” He routinely goes on site-visits into programs to see and understand the program’s impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I couldn’t resist the opportunity to facilitate workshops in the context of a leadership program. But the best part was the chance to work with Ellie Schindelman , director of education, who is a dynamic trainer – on the design of the program. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke. Ellie taught a great trick.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

In The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Question : Yoga might not be something typically associated with thoughts about a Navy SEAL.

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JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Question : Yoga might not be something typically associated with thoughts about a Navy SEAL.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Design for Flexibility.

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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. I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef. Living Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

I asked colleagues what nonprofits had good employee champion programs and Chris Tuttle pointed me to Human Rights Watch. 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. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. Communications flows.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Question : Yoga might not be something typically associated with thoughts about a Navy SEAL.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

The program aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet to the information age — or is it? ” In a CNN interview , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's already invested more than $1 billion in his mission to get people connected.

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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. Program Design. organizational change, and technology.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

My new audial obsession is the podcast How I Built This , in which Guy Raz interviews entrepreneurs who built notable companies. One of the biggest questions on my mind as I listen is: why isn’t my industry scaling up the way these businesses do? Cultural organizations tend to have many programs, projects, audiences, and goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Pre-program the hipcast number, a pause, and your hipcast usercode into your phone. (I Later in the afternoon, I went to a session called "Interviewing Techniques" and I did too much of a set up to the first question. This approach is good to start learning your craft and for on-the-go, really short interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

The nonprofits in this workshop, for the most part, deliver programs and services that address sensitive topics. The are several answers to this question. This requires carefully thinking about comment moderation techniques and part of this includes articulating a clear policy about use of moderation. by Ken Fischer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I got to meet the dynamic NPower Seattle executive director Alison Carl White who talked passionately about her organization’s mission and programs. I incorporated examples from people in the room and then asked them talk about it. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. After conversation starters is to make connections.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Send frontrunners your RFP and offer to answer any additional questions that they may have. And if you have any questions about your own organization’s upcoming projects or needs, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Executive search and leadership learning programs. Review your candidates. Review their proposals.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The 45 page report is based on an extensive literature search and interviews with Philanthropy professionals who are currently experimenting with Web 2.0 tools and techniques. Many we interviewed felt that communicating those innovative efforts through these new technologies makes sense. I'm still wading my way through it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

I also video blogged the session and caught up with a participant for a quick interview about their impressions. Some questions: What kind of camera should I use? There were questions about signing a release form. We ended up interviewing each other ( Andy , Jonny , and me ). For that last question, use the NpTech tag.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. interview Museums Engaging in 2.0 How did you get the gallery?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The key will be to play with this technique to get the quality better and better. I aslo think it is a fabulous technique for capturing and sharing knowledge from conferences and other nonprofit gatherings as I noted here. He said the free and cheap programs for video making are imovie (mac) or moviemaker (pc) or quicktime pro.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What you want to do is copy and paste the specific questions into a Word document and respond thoroughly to each question. Note: Steps #2 – #6 are all very common questions asked in any FOA/RFP/NOFA. This will give more validity for your program and show that you’ve done the research. Why do this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I was asked a fabulous "skeptic" question, " What is the value that 'live tweeting' offers? My perspective: Live Tweeting forces you to be succinct so when I tweet, it is a form of notetaking and it alters the way I listen. Live Tweeting allows other people who may not be in the room to respond to questions or share resources.

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