Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Many organizations skip reflection processes or only do it after a major event because it does not feel like checking something off your to do list or moving forward.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ground Rules “It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. A picture often really is worth 1,000 words.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Sales Operations Process. Process and Performance. Optimization and Implementation of Sales Process. What is Sales Operations?

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Forum One

APRIL 6, 2023

There are lots of different pieces that go into the whole process, from engaging with services, digital tools, people, and places. These are all the systems, policies, and structures that influence the customer journey. We’re talking about coordinating people, infrastructure, and processes. The post What is Service Design?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. Change management relies on a wide variety of tools and techniques. A “Why” Statement. Reinforcements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your nonprofit marketing plan provides focus, structure, and measurable objectives to help you see what’s working and what needs to be changed. By automating the various time-consuming tasks of the marketing process, software integrations can help your organization achieve more with less.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Stakeholder Discovery : How we structure stakeholder meetings, what topics we discuss and some tips for leading discovery conversations. User Research.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. The job description defines the job, expectations of the role, and where within the organizational structure an employee falls. Why is the role necessary?

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. What is ChatGPT?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first? Develop a clear plan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated. The text message stream doesn't help the decision process. That is, to find the most damaged buildings, you should go to where there are the most buildings!

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fusionSpan

APRIL 13, 2022

Although enterprise data security may be effective and reliable, the techniques used to collect, store, and share that data may be in violation of the privacy policy. Understanding where data is kept, identifying who has access to it and blocking harmful behaviors and suspicious file transfers are all part of the process. Conclusion.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

How much would John pay for rent and how should we structure it? So we structured the rent in a “base with kicker” format. So I wrote up ten distinct priorities we’d heard throughout the process and invited board and staff members to each pick their top three. That’s all we knew going into negotiations.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. This is known as “showing your corporate underpants”.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

AI is the process of using computers to help perform tasks automatically that could previously only be done by humans. To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone. Training Design'

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent webinar, we gave answers to some of the GA4 FAQs we’ve been asked and showed partners a step-by-step process to getting started. If you’re currently using UA on your website, Google has developed the ‘GA4 Setup Assistant’ which will guide you through the process. Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

How people think and process information are one set of theories that include multiple intelligences , learning styles , and constructivism. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. Format Templates , Content Asset Organizing Tools, and scheduling software that covers this whole process. Co-Schedule: A Tool That Manages the Continuous Improvement Process. <iframe What tools, techniques, or work flows work for you?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The whole process from idea to seeing it on a bookstore shelf was 30 months. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. But that’s only because it was my first one.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Ensure that the donation process is straightforward and clearly outlined, whether it’s through a donation form or a designated donation page. Make the registration or application process intuitive and user-friendly, allowing potential volunteers to find the right opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. I like to use a combined method.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. This may lead to developing processes that can inevitably improve departments and organizations as a whole.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The whole process from idea to seeing it on a bookstore shelf was 30 months. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. But that’s only because it was my first one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. It's lack of enablement. According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively. It's lack of enablement. According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. Every manager knows the value of teamwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I think about the KWL process. What do you want to learn from working together? What you know?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

People understand the dry sentiment that they are providing to their workforce and are focusing on techniques in which they can improve delivery, effectiveness, and user attention. Be sure when implementing this method that you structure a believable storyline, develop characters, and incorporate real-life scenarios.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. C hallenge assumptions : “What do you think you will lose if you start sharing responsibility for the implementation process?”. Reflective Listening Techniques. Ask Good Questions.

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