The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

With the right mindset and techniques, fundraisers can transform what feels like a burden into a rewarding experience of community, purpose, and achievement. By leveraging their Unlimited Human Support model, Flipcause Concierge is able to create customized campaigns that motivate and engage participants.

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Challenge Donation Tips Fundraising 59

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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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

I’m referring to ChatGPT , a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that’s changing the game in every industry. ChatGPT (Chat Generated Paragraph Techniques) is an advanced natural language processing tool to provide information and cobble content together based on prompts entered by a user. Well, there’s a solution.

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. An engaging meeting or training should always starts with a great opening. As the facilitator you can model it with brevity – it should be no more than 30 seconds. Then call on people, saying the next is A, followed by B.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Predictive analytics is the use of data, statistical algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data. This opens the possibility for your entire staff to improve a member’s experience with your organization. . What is predictive analytics? .

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Analytics Retention Associations Case Study 115

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment. Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

While in-person events are beginning to open up again, many have pivoted to a hybrid learning environment. How much : Registration opens in late summer 2021. Audience size : Typically 300, Open. Networking happens between sessions and at an opening-day party. Audience size : Open. It’s great to have options.

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Conference Nonprofit Americorp Fort Worth 122

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Accessibility eBook New York City Social 171

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Effective Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Policy Technique News 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

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Participatory Leadership Model Skills 116

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Effective Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

Time 52

Time Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Time Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. To guide evaluation, there are several learning theories, including The Four Levels of Evaluation, also referred to as the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model , was created by Donald Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Management Mentoring Policy Technique 52

Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”. When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Analytics Google Digital Free 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The opening keynote by Hallie Preskill, Managing Director, FSG talked about the trends setting the stage for new evaluation methods, but also cautioned that these methods would not replace traditional methods. Systems are non-linear, complex, and dynamic. But on the other hand, traditional evaluation models are: Focused on model testing.

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Evaluation Generation Method Slides 97

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Mentoring Policy Technique News 53

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . So I can see your point and are you open to hearing my perspective? But her business model is all about generosity, all about offering.

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People Community Video Podcast 76

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. . How do you get people to turn up in person and online? .

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Virtual Audience Technique Industry 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

When would the market be open and under what conditions? What techniques have you used to set priorities for a big, complicated negotiation? How much would John pay for rent and how should we structure it? Who would manage construction? Who would steer the design? Who would pick the food vendors? I was overwhelmed and under-confident.

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It also integrates marketing principles and human behavior models into its machine-learning-based model. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories. Using all of this data, Quilt.AI

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Benefit Fundraising Retention Conversation 65

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

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. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

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.

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Campaign Online Chapter Model 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. 2) Philanthropy and Social Innovation : This course is designed to educate young, aspiring social entrepreneurs in how to create new models, programs and organizations. 3) Giving 2.0:

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Giving Philanthropy Teach Student 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Leadership Mentoring Policy Technique 40

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. 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. Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Policy Technique News 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Mentoring Policy Leadership Technique 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Some great data resources are featured this week, along with telling insight on the use of big data for global development and the use of open data by citizens. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved. Data Use by Citizens. Data Resources.

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Data Global YouTube Resource 44

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2019

Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Have an open door policy 66. Encourage individualism and welcome input 43. Share third-party compliments about your employees with your employees 44. Be willing to change your decisions 45. Be humble 47. Explain each person's relevance 48. Discipline in private 59.

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Mentoring Leadership Policy Technique 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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