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JULY 20, 2009

See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). I have a process where I do an "exit interview." Tags: guest blogging. If I had more bandwidth and if I had been more ambitious goals, I would have set up unique tracking URLs in bit.ly But, this conflicted with goal 1 - keeping my sanity during the move.

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MAY 31, 2023

It involves careful consideration during the planning process to ensure that you are only collecting the information you absolutely need to report on the results of your efforts and nothing more. For instance, if you VPN in from Germany, you should not be tracked by default and should have to opt into tracking explicitly. #2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Tags: training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. We covered some strategy points, but also had the group tweeting. Participants got to introduce themselves with "just three tags," picking three key words that describe them. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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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 ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Tags: wearemedia.

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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. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story. Tags: powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. . I've written endlessly about the techniques of listening, metrics, reflection and reiteration. Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Reflection at the end to harvest learnings. Tags: scholar working wikily. Photo by Goldberg. And, sand boxes are social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

The main part of the call featured case studies by peer grantees who shared their strategies for social media integration, measurable objectives, measurement, and social media techniques, particularly use of Twitter. 3. An opportunity to Process and Apply. I always incorporate some sort of reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Use Time Management Techniques. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#. Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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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. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Even small improvements can translate into significant benefits for your website, whether in terms of donation acquisition, ease-of-use, or streamlining your team’s process. Set standardized processes for posting new content. Let’s get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

We've placed relationships as an outcome or result using the techniques of listening, learning, reflection, micro-planning, and adapting. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. Tags: Books. We've been calling it " Listening and Learning Loops." Giving Good Poke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. This is multi-step process looking at your web site content, events, and social media properties. Tagging photos. Tagging a person. Tags: facebook metrics. Status updates. Visiting other fan pages and participating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. She encouraged the group that they could started tweeting five or ten minutes a day. (Here’s step-by-step process that you can use over 6-8 weeks to establish good practice).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

tags: arts ). That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. Why It is Important ??? Questions I still have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. builds network as it needs it. What are the features?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Correcting Misconceptions and Improving Customer/Stakeholder Relations The AirForce Blog : The image above is of the US Air Force Blog Assessment and Engagement process. Using the hard data points and sifting through qualitative data, she drives reflective conversations with staff that reap substantial insights. This drove traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Somehow the combinations of Alligators and Roller Coasters have helped me get back my flow known as the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by psychologist Mih??ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing the art selection process, and opening it up to the public. Tags: crowdsourcing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

"   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog. Is there a formula or set of sharper reflection questions? Tags: socialmediametrics.    What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them. Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice. Self-Select Delivery Style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. How can we take advantage of the medium of Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? " This was the mad GTD part of the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Tags: network effectiveness. Communication tools are appropriate given member skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. I feel that David Armano's " Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt " process is something that you don't stop doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Heather from Aspiration shares her process for securing a venue for Penguin Day.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? They also want to avoid stories or perspectives that reflect hateful or offensive views toward other people. In Your Face ).

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