Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. Then we found a partner and shared our maps.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

Map Out Event Marketing Goals and Event Plan. Bring in relevant speakers , provide added value that is competitive with other events, and implement different engagement techniques, like gamification, one on one networking, polls and Q&As, and fun technologies. . This way, your marketing plan is directed at that goal.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

People and Connections Map : Helps you map your network. Tell stories and make maps. ” It is a social innovation toolkit for those who work in the development sector. A few tools that caught my eye: 1. Evidence Planning: Helps define outcomes for a project. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 21, 2021

To tackle this, we will first map out your event marketing funnel and then highlight how an event marketer can boost sales at every stage of that funnel. But, by mapping the marketing funnel stages, you can more effectively move registrants towards that goal. . Mapping Leads at Every Marketing Funnel Stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Building a solid core, participants can use social media tools to easily connect NGOS with new people who have knowledge, resources, and ideas to share to help with the project goals. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Social media tools can help you easily connect with people who have the knowledge, resources, and ideas to share. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. As you can see by looking at the WEF Instagram account, they recorded the answers to the questions during the meeting and have been sharing the Q/A on video here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. ” He curated the above mindmap and when I shared this Google + , I discovered that nonprofit colleagues have the same struggle. I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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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

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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper.

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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

MAY 20, 2013

One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it. I suggested that we used my “Hello My Name” share pair that I have been doing for the past five years and adapt it as a closer.

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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. We are working very closely with V.S.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

To learn how to optimize your database… Breanne Leach, Database Administrator and Emily Ferguson, Membership Manager at the San Diego Natural History Museum will share tips and tricks for creating a culture in your institution that values your database as your system of record. Getting Organized for bbcon 2021 Virtual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Evaluation should not be separate from what we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Since then, this practical tool has received great feedback and praise from our colleagues: Beth Kanter , author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media and co-author of “ The Networked Nonprofit ” says “It’s not every day that you come across high quality content shared freely with the community – it helps lift all the boats.”.

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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. Instead, tools focused on systems-thinking/ visualizing, network-mapping, asset-based inquiry, collaboration, collective strategy, and technology-enhanced connectivity are needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Staff were asked to use a technique called “ Rose, Bud, Thorn ” to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities for change. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session? 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.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re an event planner and need to market your event, you might want to take advantage of some free marketing techniques that can really help promote your event. . Your event marketing budget will be distinct from your event budget, and you’ll want to map out how much you can spend for each. .

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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. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. 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. They shared how they worked through this internally.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Share enthusiastic endorsements from recognizable opinion leaders, celebrities, or experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

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. The point is that we learn best by teaching what we have learned and interacting with others to share ideas and work through problems.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 12, 2012

Let me make it simple for you and share the 9 steps to creating a powerful fundraising plan. Anytime you look at a map, you first have to find your starting point. No matter which fundraising techniques you use, you need to include these three targets. You want that, right? Start where you are. Set your targets.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 24, 2015

All parties in the industry need to work together to encourage sharing of information in order to improve communications with and transparency to the donor. 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

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Alison Carlman, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, has written this guest post about how to use some tools and techniques for using feedback. Batchgeo is a free mapping tool that helps you visualize the data that lives in your spreadsheets. Share your learning with your stakeholders. Try the free version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind. There were some excellent “burning questions” that folks shared about nonprofit training. We were also accommodating a remote audience as well. Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning.

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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. This was followed by a session introducing them to basic measurement techniques and tools for measuring social media outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Urges nonprofits to focus on sharing and using basic information about who they are, what they’re doing and what’s happening, before tackling big data. The group identified a few organizations that are using it well, but would it great to have a deeper field understanding of where we are with this technique. In which formats?

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