sgEngage

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Higher education professionals from around the world are attending bbcon—Blackbaud’s Tech Conference for Good —October 17–18 to learn from thought leaders in education, fundraising, technology, and more. The entire conference is free and virtual, so everyone can join for inspiring content and peer networking opportunities.

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Education Professional Virtual Guide 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It was a great learning experience from both a process and content perspective. The first step in the exercise was to ask participants to write down three things about themselves that are important for others to know for this project, including skills, knowledge, interests, or learning goal.

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Professional Network Learning Lebanon 101

Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019! Here they are: My Three Rituals.

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

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. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water , a nonprofit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, is leading the way when it comes to redefining nonprofit marketing; they are exceptional at inbound marketing, focusing on creating powerful content to inspire people to join their cause. Image from Flickr by Xurble.

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Charity Lesson Marketing Digital 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world.” It can also make using data fun !

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Blended Measure Chapter Picture 136

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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Content Skills Feeds Tutorial 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. At the time, I was working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author KD Paine. I first heard Laura speak when she launched her book , Giving 2.0, at Stanford two years ago.

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Giving Philanthropy Teach Student 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Since this isn’t always possible, it is important to incorporate opportunities for them to capture their learning so they can share it. Target the right level of authority: This means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.” Design for Participants To Apply.

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Train Training Reflection Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement. Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. How about you? I also use it as a year in review tool. Year in Review.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. As those of us working in this emerging space have learned, this work can be complex, dynamic, and tricky – much harder to master than traditional nonprofit management tools.

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Train 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room.

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Community Giving Fundraising Contest 109

Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Whether your program is relying on outdated volunteer scheduling software or you simply want to learn more about volunteer scheduling best practices, we have a solution for you. As any volunteer manager knows, volunteer scheduling is a fundamental part of the day-to-day operations of all nonprofit volunteer programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. This was in the era before Facebook and there was far less information available compared today. (My Click Through to Amazon and Get This Book! All you have to do read Ann M.

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Literacy Chapter Journal Teach 110

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. I was just learning how to write a book. If you have not read it, please do.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 48

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. A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Stern School of Business.

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Leadership New York Share Baltimore 85

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

From full on role playing games to scavenger hunts, games can be digital or analog. Barry Joseph and I chatted games this week. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. How did you get into museum games?

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Game Museum Design Digital 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In a nutshell, the advice is to spend time on the important tasks first and practice good delegation skills. Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, shares a post packed with some practical tips for personal productivity , including one tip that you don’t often see: “ always be learning.”

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Product Personal Tips Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Register here. The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. Register here. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Pune Dracker, Director, Website Content & Editorial Services, ASPCA. Photo: Pune Dracker Everything I know about the editorial process I learned from Teddy Bear Review. You can apply the technique to blogs, too. Read comments carefully and be sure to have the author/poster/someone from your organization answer questions.

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Comment Tips Contest Facebook 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track.

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Music Video Journal QuickTime 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. I was just learning how to write a book. But that’s only because it was my first one.

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Storytelling Chapter Story Teach 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. I was just learning how to write a book. But that’s only because it was my first one.

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Teach Story Storytelling Chapter 40

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. A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Stern School of Business.

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New York Baltimore Teach Mind 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0 Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0

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Brain Mind Offline South Africa 104

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So if you have to leave or leave early, or maybe get interrupted or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff to you later today. . Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. . – [Steven] [inaudible]. Okay, Lindsay, I got 1:00 Eastern. – [Lindsay] Ready to roll. . I’m Steven.

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Forum One works hand-in-hand with major civic and social organizations to ensure that their online content is effective and reaches target audiences. You’ll learn how to navigate a search engine results page with confidence and amplify your nonprofit’s reach and engagement in organic search.

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International Strategy Search Structure 90

Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether it’s providing an effective guide to grant writing or delving into expert advice on digital marketing strategies for nonprofits, these free nonprofit resources provide invaluable knowledge to help you develop your fundraising skills. These resources often offer great advice so you can create a first-rate fundraising strategy.

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Resource Raise Free Help 122

Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

You can learn from what others did right and wrong to do your best. As more and more donors familiarize themselves with crowdfunding, they’re finding it’s a convenient way to donate to their favorite organizations. And if you’re a nonprofit, there’s a lot to think about when you’re about to launch a crowdfunding campaign. Be transparent.

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Tips Nonprofit Campaign Student 41