Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The morning used the World Cafe technique. I first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

JANUARY 14, 2019

Rapid technological developments over the past few years have left many nonprofit professionals scrambling to stay up-to-date with the newest tools and techniques without wasting time and money on passing fads. Digital fundraising is area that has seen huge advances recently, and is expected to continue growing. Digital Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory.

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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. Click to see larger version.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Their impact is to make the world a better place.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. I have read a lot about these methods , but you cannot really under it until you experience it.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One of the most significant issues facing any event, but particularly those in a hybrid model, is that of attendance. . Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques you can use for boosting attendance for both the virtual and physical audience segments. . Use the Right Technology. Create Ticket Tiers. Choose a Safe Space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. We also covered some of the basic techniques for listening and engaging. We did an exercise to identify keywords and I demoed several tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Mary Joyce used a remix of the Social Media Game that I created with David Wilcox back in 2007 and has subsequently been used by many other nonprofit technology trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. (The Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

He will join me via skype from Italy for an interview and discussion. I recorded the above skype interview as a technology back up – it is filled with great advice and worth listening to for 14 minutes. (If you’re short on time, I have a transcript linked to resources here ). A Simple Method For Getting Started.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Let's take a look at where the technology to make this all happen is going -- and where it's coming up short. . In this model, your organization will have no idea where the hardware actually providing your services is located -- and, better yet, you won't care. Ultimately, this is an area where technology will fail us if we rely on it.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

Last summer I explored the distinction in an online piece that argued that communication is what transforms data into useful information, and that this communication process has been fundamentally altered by the latest wave of digital technology. First, research creates data Data don't just materialize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. “With the advent of social technology, we are facing an avalanche of data. differently as DoSomething.Org has done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Leaders can leverage the hybrid meeting model to change this by looking around the table and making sure all voices are seen and heard, whether participating on-screen or in-person.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I was fortunate enough to be invited to be a guest speaker at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. The idea, grand in scope, was to present models and technology that can assist organizations shift internal cultures to make diversity of all types the norm. It all started back in March of this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Just ‘Cause: Can Technology Make Brand Irrelevant? Trust me.

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

According to research by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, 80% of nonprofits don’t have a policy to address cyberattacks. These techniques are used by threat actors to influence unsuspecting individuals into acting or sharing information that can be leveraged for a cyberattack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact by Meg Rulli. Kyle Rush, Author and Technology Consultant.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 8, 2020

The organization will often do something to facilitate the raising of funds, but the exact method of how is up to the individual fundraisers. Whereas traditional peer-to-peer methods will focus on one single event, such as a run, the DIY model does not,” writes Henry Vashon, a blogger at Draftbeyond. Trends in DIY Fundraising.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. It will bring together the practitioners, scientists and creative minds of behavior change to discuss the science and technology of change. Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? Perhaps most of your target audience members are not technologically savvy and don???t ve traditionally relied on education as their main method ??? Some sort of research ???

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Let's examine the case for each of Karen's techniques. To me, this is the least interesting model, in which museums provide standard computer stations for visitors to explore web-based content. Let's say you create a magic scoring device that allows visitors in the museum to rate each exhibit on a scale of 1-5. Alongside the exhibits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media. 4) Crowd Funding.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2011

Namely, it is an easy method to categorize donors and track their performance. This method works stellar for segments that are solidly profitable or unprofitable. online) can be used in this RFMA method. The RFM selection methodology has many inherent benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. A logic model. (I What happens?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) He says, "Turn strangers into friends.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) He says, "Turn strangers into friends.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

In science and technology centers, there are some “can’t”s that are alive and well in other museums. on kids' freedom--keeps science and technology museums from hard topics and edgy presentation styles. Here are a few things I learned from this session: Self-censorship is different in different museum types.

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