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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated. It may be that people move away from damaged buildings (perhaps to places where humanitarian assistance is being given) before texting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? This drove traffic. Hat tip Miriam Kagan ) Improving Program and Service Delivery.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We've covered bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, and maps in Beyond the Pie Chart. As a result, they are the most commonly misused chart type. Overlay pies on maps. If you choose to use this technique, use pies with only a couple of wedges to keep it easy to understand. When to Use a Pie Chart. That's it.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. Highlight the fundraisers you expect to bring in similar results. We know you have a lot on your plate. List Your Resources.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Big data has become a topic of interest due to the large quantities of data (and meta data) now captured, stored, bought and sold as a result of the digital age in which we live, especially via eCommerce and social media. Refers to data sets so large and complex that traditional database tools are not able to manage or process the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Analyze results data to double down on what inspires action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. My presentation use s*x metaphors to explain some of the points.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Aubrey is known for her results-driven, customer-centric, data-obsessed pursuit of changing the narrative for symphony orchestras and other arts organizations. Whether a Blackbaud Altru rookie or veteran, you will find useful tips and techniques to launch from this session! Getting Organized for bbcon 2021 Virtual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Givinga

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Below are the major pieces of functionality and customization techniques businesses should look for to increase profits. With donation tracking and impact reporting, businesses can collect and analyze data on their philanthropic impact, projecting their results into the market. Donation Tracking and Impact Reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The impact, longer term, is innovation or the result of the network in action. It doesn’t happen overnight and it takes daily practice. One efficient technique is to spend five minutes of your day at the end reflecting. That’s social capital and it does have value. Let’s focus on the very first steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. Connecting Up Master Class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it There are countless books that tell you how to avoid mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Learning is the ultimate result of being “ data informed ” that is using feedback data to improve results. Alison Carlman, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, has written this guest post about how to use some tools and techniques for using feedback. If customers don’t like a product, they won’t pay for it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

3rd Sector Labs

JULY 24, 2015

Once we got past that uncomfortable moment, we opened the door to opportunities to both reduce fundraising risk and improve fundraising results … through better data. There are a number of techniques and best practices that can be implemented through your giving technology to help you gather more complete donor data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Call this “social change 2.0”.

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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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

They also created network maps for each country as well sharing examples using online networks using technology tools. We used the resulting brainstorm as the basis for exercises in writing headlines and creating visual content, two of the most important content creation skills for social media staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The organizational dashboard isshared across departments and there is a process for analyzing, discussing,and applying results.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

They are the result of research — measuring something quantitatively or qualitatively, formally or informally; usually involving a question, a purpose, and by necessity a methodology and instrument. Information results from discovering something and then telling others about it. First, research creates data Data don't just materialize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

In this era of overwhelming inundation of data and messages, an organization’s relationships help it achieve results. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. One might think that great content curation that gets results is a full-time job. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. Debra Askanase has a terrific blog post that captures the many pearls of wisdom that were shared as a result of the design. I suspect I’m not alone. The Back Channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Good for you! Great work. Do you need to prune?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Heidi is hosting The Nonprofit Treasure Map Workshop, which includes three interactive sessions designed to help you increase your donations. Whenever you have a favor to ask, a request for someone to do something, even if it’s just giving you some additional information, you’re using the same techniques that you use when asking for money.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Useful differentiation in their Audience Involvement Spectrum (see image at top) between programs that provide "enhanced engagement" and those that invite audience members to make contributions that impact and alter the end result. What's the relationship between the goals of participation and the techniques employed?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2018

And did you know that when you go to sleep at night and leave your phone on to charge, marketing organizations are using the stillness of your phone for multiple hours to tell them where you live and apply marketing techniques with that information. These consumers are smart, mobile, and savvy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. Hence repetition through different channels is probably a necessary as is tracking the results of different channels and interpretation. I would love to see campaign map.

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