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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Throughout the week, NTC attendee volunteers will be heading off site to give back. If you are signed up for the NTC, but not for the Day of Service, head over to the Day of Service site and sign up for a project. Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. You can also learn a lot from analyzing the email questions from your organization’s web site general email address. And, of course, don’t forget to pay attention to questions and comments that bubble up on your social media channels as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I’ve learned so much just watching his curation technique over at scoop.it. Robin recently shared his comprehensive map of content curation skills, dividing them into couple of key categories. Master curator, Robin Good, is the all around expert when comes to the topic of content curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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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

JANUARY 5, 2011

Or if you’ve developed the bad habit of mindless checking of your social sites or other social media bad habits. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? Source: Lumosity Site.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. Site maps : How we create research-based site maps and special considerations for nonprofits when developing site maps. User Research. Information Architecture.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. To understand how visitors interact with the site. Overall site visits. People who leave the site (bounce rate). Time spent on the site. Surveys and Interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. It doesn’t matter whether it is on our web site or somewhere else.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Joe Page met us in town and we reviewed the Bachelor catalog looking for a good subject to interview. So, I did an ambush interview ask him to share why community giving is important. I hope you’ll take the five minutes to watch the clip. Here’s some thoughts: From Nancy Duarte's new book, resonate. Click to play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

You can bet dollars that they are tracking conversions on that call to action link for the event sign up. Remember that you need to promote your event through all your digital and offline channels as appropriate – email, web site, flyers, and other social channels too. Shonali Burke has a terrific tip.

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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. Every member experience with your brand is a plus or a minus.

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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.

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BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2016

In the last 30 days, Adwords accounted for 12% of sessions on the BoardAssist site, a major jump thanks to the YPB. In fact, the SEO audit identified a number of new and interesting ways for us to improve our sites’s visibility, almost all having to do with things we should be doing unrelated to our site.

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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 use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

The tips and techniques shared in the next few pages will help your organization guide supporters and transform them into effective fundraisers for your organization's cause or program. Soon, I will post my video of my interview with Nick and some video shooting techniques).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week Kivi wrote about “ newsjacking ” the technique of piggy backing on a crisis to get more media attention. I asked Kivi to share her process: I was on the Washington Post site reading something else when I saw the AP story. I was so irritated with Komen at that point that I was pretty critical in the interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

There are different formats that you can use to make it more interactive: panel discussion, or interview experts. Creative use of technology and facilitation techniques, however, can maximize the opportunities for interactivity even in larger groups. Large: Over 50 people.

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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. But charity: water didn’t decide on this value proposition haphazardly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

You can learn more about the partnership at the Salesforce.com Foundation site and the NTEN web site. Anyway, I've discovered some techniques in making the process a bit more efficient. So, it took me a few weeks to learn it, do some interviews with more knowledgeable people (like Marc Sirkin ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

15% of adult SNS users said they had an experience on the site that ended their friendship with someone. You can read more about the concept on his site and find links to his books. There was a wonderful interview with Jane McGonigal and Kelly McGonigal about their work. Many said they had both experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I had to adapt all my social media techniques for very low bandwidth and do it in real time. We visited many of the key historic and cultural sites in Phnom Penh, including the Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview. Headed to phnom tamao wildlife sanctuary instagr.am/p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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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. I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. " I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally. Here's another one called " Meet Charlie."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

This requires carefully thinking about comment moderation techniques and part of this includes articulating a clear policy about use of moderation. Great Darren Rowse Problogger Interview by Guy on Sun. What I'm talking about deliberately are hateful comments by trolls that might happen if sensitive subject matter being discussed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Just for giggles, I started a thread on Google + to do an interview with nonprofits and social activists exploring Google + as part of some preparation for an interview with Alison Fine for the Social Good Podcast. Some have seen some early benefits of getting web site traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Fundraising Campaigns and Presentations Camera Rwanda Photo Stream Post with an interview Street Kids Fundraising Campaign raised $8,000 from photo group Sharing Foundation Presentation annotated in a flickr photo set. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites). More Advanced Techniques. A List of Examples. Basic Overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Trust me — I know them well because I used to be one.” Giller, a journalist, established the Seattle-based nonprofit as a destination news web site for environmental news, reports and opinion with a wry sense of humor. Someone is even selling bumper stickers with the phrase.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. Document the learnings from this personal fundraising campaign.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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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. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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