NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Set your own benchmarks: Guidelines, benchmark reports, and best practices are helpful to know, but ultimately its important to know your audience. We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere. Download this free recording from Blackbauds webinar about setting your goals for #GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2017

Part of the workshop includes an assessment and reflection about the causes of stress in the nonprofit workplace. I had participants use an online polling app to type in their answers and it generates a word cloud. Of course, organizational leaders of to model this mindset and people in the organization have to practice it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

It's that time of year when many of us reflect on the work we've accomplished over the year. TIME Magazine reflected and determined this was the year of "The Protester." On our Facebook page , our community is reflecting on their technology accomplishments. The content?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. And now, because I can insert a poll here, I’m going to. __.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. One of the reflections. Robert Scoble calls this taking a twitter break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design. Instructional Design. I cebreakers and Closers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

Finally, mobile and social media burnout is compounded when compensation does not reflect your new media manager’s skill set and time investment. Too many nonprofits are losing their most valuable staff because resentment is growing over low pay and overwhelming job descriptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix. Does not know where to start. Often overwhelmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes. I wrote this reflection on balancing solitude and information overload summarizing what I read on Quora.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 10, 2023

To learn more about your audience’s preferences, consider asking them through surveys and online polls. Consider the different aspects of your nonprofit and how your designs can reflect those aspects. Implement SEO best practices. Are you promoting a specific initiative or your nonprofit in general?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Then comes the difficult part – identifying what “associated” metrics from social, email, and your web site that you need to collect. What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. The example highlights how they link their key result area to a KPI to associated metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It’s an important but often-overlooked practice for any organization. You’ll also want to set up landing pages that reflect this message and offer a kind of simple test of visitors’ support for your cause–a petition, pledge, or something similar. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a Webinar for grantees of the Agriculture Sub-Program. This blog post summarizes some of the knowledge shared about effective social media strategy, tactics, and practices. I always incorporate some sort of reflection. So, they started a fun meme. 3. An opportunity to Process and Apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice. I'm going to challenge myself to do this in a couple of sessions where we might have a lot of Twitter users and going to make some quick notes on practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Since the NTEN Academy is a peer exchange program, I did more than simply chunk content and encourage interaction through polls, the backchannel chat, and people talking on the phone line every 12 minutes. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. The Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

It would be hard to answer this as a comment of a blog post too or if someone was doing a quick poll. And beyond quick information exchange -- if you want a deeper reflective conversation, twitter is not the place to have it. A blog is great for more reflective practice. I think it depends. That's a good skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Make action practical, easy. Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. video [link] MJRovner @ kanter talk to Greenpeace USA -- Marie Michelson -- "online to on the ground" program What are your best tips and practices for activating the activists offline?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. In between sections, I asked people to do a standing poll. I did a full-room reflection exercise before the break in the morning called "Let's Walk the Line." One thing I will put into practice.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 16, 2014

Reflect on How Well You Helped Solve Your Clients’ Problems Last Year. Poll your clients and see what they thought of your programs—they may have some great ideas for how you can improve your offering this year. This simple practice will help keep morale high and infuse a sense of fun into your workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that. I also taught many workshops where I included techniques on how to deal with information overload caused by using the Internet to get our work done. A good curator also knows their audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. 20 practices. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John Coate was first written in 1992 and will give you a good context of online community practice. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 The npdigg community roles include consumers, voters, and submitters.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes END-OF-YEAR EVENT FUNDRAISING The final quarter of the year unfolds with a blend of reflection and anticipation. Traditional Events Traditional year-end fundraising events, such as galas, are meant to celebrate your hard work, reflect on your impact, and thank your donors and sponsors.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Work together with sponsors, partners, and registered attendees through polling or submitted requests for a specific theme or topic. This proactive approach will be positively reflected in audience satisfaction. . The purpose of the dry run is to practice using the event technology and test the transitions between sessions. .

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Traditional year-end fundraising events, such as galas, are meant to celebrate your hard work, reflect on your impact, and thank your donors and sponsors. Virtual Events Best Practices and Vendor Resource Guide – a very thorough guide from Achurch Consulting and Ellipsis Partners. Traditional Events.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Work together with sponsors, partners, and registered attendees through polling or submitted requests for a specific theme or topic. This proactive approach will be positively reflected in audience satisfaction. . The purpose of the dry run is to practice using the event technology and test the transitions between sessions. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’m going to be kicking things off in a couple minutes with some awesome polls to get to know you better. And I’m going to start off by doing some polls, and I’m going to launch this poll right now. Take my poll, fundraising friends. Just choose in the poll how many appeals mail and email you sent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. Being proactive rules out using RSS feeds to populate our Twitter feed.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’ve got some polls for you. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. Most of you have answered, so we’re going to just end the poll. So I’m actually going to launch my second poll.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Andy: So we’ll see if the poll works. So if the poll is launchable, launch it. So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said. So you’re reflecting back what they said, and then you essentially deflect it. .

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