Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. If you’re doing social media and you’re trying to be perfect, get over it – you won’t learn how to improve what you’re doing. Schoemaker.

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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. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. Machine Learning (ML) is a type of AI focusing on the development of algorithms which allow the program to learn and improve over time. Additional resources To learn more about AI tools for nonprofits, check out these additional resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. The skills are: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. Found it via Curata’s collection ). Look for the Patterns.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Adaptive learning models can empower teachers to customize instruction for each student’s needs, and students can even personalize a digital tutoring experience. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

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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 idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space.

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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. This book is about what I’ve learned from my blunders, and how you can replicate our successes,” says Jacobs. He began his career at age 23 when he founded Amerex Oil Associates, followed by Hamilton Resources, both privately held.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 19, 2021

As a member-based organization, your association can be THE trusted resource for information in your industry or profession. All of our top member retention resources in one place. Offer year-round learning opportunities. Be sure to include learning opportunities in your meetings and conferences. Get it now.

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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. Join them to learn the strategy, techniques, and usage of this new generation of innovation. Register now for bbcon 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning that builds your expertise while enhancing your organization’s brand and content strategy. Content curation can empower us to learn more and use that knowledge to get deeper impact for our nonprofit’s programs.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors Part II. In my previous post “ Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors ” I delved shortly into the gloomy cloud of sadness that engulfs the perception of the entire LMS industry. Content is the most important resource for the development of individuals within your organization.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

Engaging board members in fundraising efforts not only boost the organization’s financial resources but also strengthens the board’s commitment to the organization’s mission. This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

What are some practical techniques for practicing systems leadership skills? One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.” ” Shadowing means that a person accompanies somebody for a defined period of time to observe him/her during work and learn from this observation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

As we describe it in our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion that occurs when we feel overwhelmed by too many demands, too few resources, and too little recovery time. Building Your Resilience Skills To Manage Workplace Stress. Resilience as a concept is not new.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. Change management relies on a wide variety of tools and techniques. Prosci Resource Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Additional Resources. Visualization Techniques.

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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. Report The Nonprofit Email Report Learn More 4. Here are 10 nonprofit conferences in 2023 and 2024 you shouldn’t miss!

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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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In this Design for Nondesigners 101 course, you’ll conduct a self-assessment of your organization, watch videos to learn about design, and practice applying what you've learned. Learn design basics. The course will also walk you through creating a brand book for your nonprofit or library.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

Or teachers can turn learning into playtime with games for math and science that educate as they entertain. And as Casey Sapp, founder of VRTÜL Education notes, it’s likely that it won’t be long before all students have a personal VR pocket device that can connect them to learning opportunities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Even a metric that aligns perfectly with your theory of change won’t be useful if you can’t collect good data — or if collecting good data would take more resources than you can devote to the task. Some metrics require specialized training or techniques to collect, analyze, or interpret. Think Seriously About What’s Practical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In modern times we expect a lot from our training and development programs, and it safe to assume that progression in our industry is strictly relational to a number of additional learning aspects we can obtain from our Learning Programs themselves. This is a very important aspect of the learning mix to approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

If you’re motivated to go deeper on LinkedIn after reading this summary, you will want to check out my curated list of nonprofit and LinkedIn resources here. Nonprofits Miss Out on the Power of LinkedIn: Learn How to Tap It – Guest Post by Geri Stengel. LinkedIn has 150 million affluent, influential members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” But I also regularly read books as part of my ongoing self-directed learning. The Accelerated Learning Handbook. By Dave Meier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. Use Learning Theory. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I have also attended and facilitated meetings with a graphic recorder, most recently at the Nonprofit Technology Conference , and know the power of how “drawing on the wall” can help spark group insights and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Here’s a write of this technique. It is a lot of fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Vision is our primary sense and we use it to differentiate and learn the nature of everything around us by recognizing patterns. If you lack graphic design skills, you should sketch out your insights and main ideas. Here’s one of the best guides on the topic, chocked full of tips, examples,and how tos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Anyone and everyone, even beginners, can learn how to analyze their own data in Excel. 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. My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes. Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you are interested in online fundraising but don’t have the resources to build a custom platform for donations like charity: water, there are applications that help nonprofits get started with online fundraising quickly, including Salsa and Network for Good. Image from Flickr by Xurble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening.

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