Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. ” This generated useful tips and suggestions on how to manage an editorial calendar and content strategy process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. No wonder I am still tired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. 2) 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

APRIL 26, 2010

One problem is that many do not formulate a measurement strategy and are at a loss to justify their investment of time and resources or reap insights to improve what they're doing. . The report warns that organizations should not define their measurement strategy by the features and capabilities of the tools. cut and paste).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. This is an easy way to get people moving around and wake up, especially if your session is at the end of the day. It is a good idea to include a fun question appropriate to the audience to illustrate the technique. Spectragram.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here ! Here’s what they said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She made great points about what they had in place the day before the earthquake in Haiti struck: Robust listening program where staff skims and responds. They do not view social media as fundraising strategy. Showing Results: This method is for those have been applying listening techniques and want to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

There are two cohort groups, one working on strategic use of a single channel and a more advanced group working on an integrated strategy. With both, the process begins with setting SMART objectives and Kami Huyse points out why this is important. Using SMART objectives for nonprofit communications strategies is not new idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Back in 1994, a software program called Word Perfect (circa 1994) was making the move from its DOS interface to its Windows GUI. A very large number of their longtime users stayed with DOS. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. What gave me joy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use 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

DECEMBER 9, 2013

A willingness to engage about what to do to make your program better. ” Program development has to be ongoing, emergent. It reminded me of “lean start up” methods – the process of discovery, iteration, and pivoting to the right strategy. Brennan put it into a nonprofit context. Degree of uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. Program Design. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. This concept can be applied to effective social media — having social media be both strategic, laddering up to your program or communication goals as well as using the tools effectively. Example: Red Cross.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

It may seem like the upfront time and resource commitment of DEI initiatives, coupled with an expectation that development revenue is constantly growing, can create an environment where it is very difficult to innovate actual change with diversity programs. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. Intentional Marketing .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. His strategy for that is how to survive a buffet. There are so many good choices with a buffet that you end up stuffing yourself and over-eating. Bregman has a method for that.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Which strategies have worked well to keep donors engaged with your mission? Are there any gaps in your current digital fundraising and engagement strategy? If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that digital-centric strategies have proven to have many benefits and are here to stay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning that builds your expertise while enhancing your organization’s brand and content strategy. Content curation can empower us to learn more and use that knowledge to get deeper impact for our nonprofit’s programs.

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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. Charlene lays out four strategies. We've been calling it " Listening and Learning Loops."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use 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

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you? Year in Review.

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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. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker. This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The session was designed a mix of strategy with a deep dive into content, measurement, Facebook, and Twitter. Program outcomes: Guidance on developing an effective integrated social media strategy to support your mission. Aligns social media with their communications strategy and objectives. Morning Session.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

This blog post delves into practical strategies for transforming your nonprofit’s annual report into a compelling narrative that highlights your achievements, tells stories of transformation, and motivates your community to continue their support. Do you want to take your fundraising to the next level?

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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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. Year in Review.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

NASA’s Human Landing System program, which funded the development of three rival lunar lander prototypes (including Blue Origin’s), was expected to pick two of those landers in April. Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images. Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is fighting NASA’s decision to award SpaceX $2.9

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2014

Nonprofits should integrate learning into their work, program delivery, and communications. As Charles Jennings suggests there are three different frameworks for doing this at work: Adding, Embedding, and Extracting. He describes this option as sending staff to an outside workshop or seminar or enrolling in an online program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Photo by Beth Kanter. So what to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. How does she feel about text to give? Trepidatious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

This could be as simple as adjusting your guidelines to compensate for changing economics or as complicated as creating new grants and programs to meet those needs. It should be concise and specific, and it should reflect the needs and priorities of your community. Here are some tips on how to build a data analysis strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. Getting Ideas for Campaigns or Programs.

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