Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

A few days earlier, I read an article where DNA-sampling of freshwater ponds can reveal the presence/absence of the invasive American bullfrogs even when normal monitoring techniques fail - this technique can even detect "ghosts" - species that have been but are no longer present!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. Get the design or presentation of prediction solutions wrong and you can impact user trust and adoption. Whatever the reason, ChatGPT makes for a fascinating human-AI interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Make sure that you present your curated content using categorization and hierarchy that’s as useful to your audience as it is to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Here’s a sampling of these: Hold joyful funerals to stop doing stuff that doesn’t work well. One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique. Afterwards, we debriefed on the his tool box and techniques. UK Networked Nonprofit.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference presents a great opportunity for fundraisers across the nonprofit industry to hear from thought leaders and Neon One experts, network with other nonprofit professionals, and hone their fundraising skills! Generosity Xchange is a two-day virtual conference hosted by Neon One. Are you excited? We sure are!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We’ll present the latest data from Pew Research national surveys to engage the politically savvy and tech-obsessed folks here in DC who have noticed this shift in political life, taking a look at the raw data behind the new political process, and how it relates to our political infrastructure. Digital Politics, Wednesday, February 20th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. You have a vision and then you creates a hypothesis and you collect data to prove it right or wrong. In the example above, you would test posting the same link with the embedded link tool and without it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Forj

MAY 19, 2017

Real xAPI work is presented at MedBiq. We’re presenting on a project Web Courseworks did using this next generation interoperability standard for online learning with our client, Chad Jackson of MedBiq participates in the ongoing development of xAPI. Our presentation will be a “Speedy Standards Story.” MedBiq is public sector.

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JANUARY 17, 2016

Others yet are capable of either or both techniques. In what methodology does the research company specialize? Some companies only provide survey research services, while other companies only offer interviewing services. To ensure the company you select will be able to accomplish your goals, do your research.

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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 ). There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it.

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Forj

APRIL 24, 2018

Formats that require attention to the learner’s eyes and ears at the same time—like video and narrated presentations—are harder to fit into busy days. They’re not motivated by the credit hour, they’re motivated by the applicability of the knowledge, skills, or techniques you’re teaching and the intrinsic interest of their profession.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Hustling around the conference to get session speakers, key note presenters, and others with audiences helped us reach a social media critical mass near the beginning. A few hours later, we quickly found each other through Jessica Lin and unified our efforts as SXSWcares.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. “ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., Why should you use it?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present. But how will we know if we are actually achieving our goals? Implicit Associations test.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. Recently, we hosted a PechaKucha night at the MAH, which featured a wide range of community members presenting on eight different topics. Start with and continuously identify your communities. Who are they?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Keys To Telling A Good Story In Your Presentations. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? How To Uncover The Real Reasons Your Employees Lea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! In an earlier post and presentation, I riffed on Armano's article and translated for a nonprofit context. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, September 6, 2010 Keys To Telling A Good Story In Your Presentations Joey Ashers new 100-page book, 15 Minutes Including Q&A provides a "plan to save the world from lousy presentations," proclaims Asher. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Keys To Telling A Good Story In Your Presentations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Check Out These Free Tips For Making An Effective Presentation Speechworks has published a free eBook entitled How to Create a Seven Minute Rifle Shot Presentation. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? To get the eBook, go to the Speechworks home page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Elsewhere in the session, I was incredibly impressed by: The new Dialogue in Silence exhibition, presented by the same group (Dialogue Social Enterprise) that created the incredibly successful Dialogue in the Dark exhibition. Download my slides here. Leary (NRG! Rob shared some of the Exploratorium's forays into electronic guidebooks, Seth!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

We discussed how social media analytics can provide some great information on your existing social media followers, but at the same time, there are gaps that need to be filled through other techniques. Jeremiah presented an overview of his study about the collaborative economy and you find Jeremiah’s report and infographic here.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this presentation, and we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. Well, everyone, welcome to this presentation on building lasting relationships with your most significant givers. Hopefully, not as awkward as that was. Did you hit the green button?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

My goal wasn’t to compare raw numbers of each organization’s Pinterest scores to each other, but more to use the numbers to find those with highest engagement and reach and take a look at their boards, techniques and content. The board topics with the most followers from this sample of seven early adopters include: Photography.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". Use print to provide detailed information.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010 How To Write Your Companys Core Values Walk into any Whole Foods grocery store and youll see that companys core values proudly presented on a large sign. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Business leaders can learn a lot from the chains core values: 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Keys To Telling A Good Story In Your Presentations. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? How To Uncover The Real Reasons Your Employees Lea.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Keys To Telling A Good Story In Your Presentations. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? How To Uncover The Real Reasons Your Employees Lea.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2010

Its contributors include consultants and professors who present leadership theory in a practitioner-friendly format that provides easy-to-follow explanations on how to apply the best of leadership theory. Community users can download a variety of research reports and presentations about leadership and leadership versus management.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Download the app, type in your zip code, and you will be presented a host of nonprofit organizations with volunteer opportunities in your area. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Use print to provide detailed information.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Use print to provide detailed information. Great Quotes "Everybodys a teacher if you listen" -- Actress Doris Roberts Become A Mentor OR Be Mentored MicroMentor My MicroMentor Experience Search This Blog Loading.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

Allow enough time for sharing samples of his work and for Q&A. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Plus, the new-found knowledge drives a better appreciation for what everyone does, and proves to the team that success comes only when all the pieces fit together like a well-oiled machine.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Use print to provide detailed information. Great Quotes "Everybodys a teacher if you listen" -- Actress Doris Roberts Become A Mentor OR Be Mentored MicroMentor My MicroMentor Experience Search This Blog Loading.

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