Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. It typically involves a substantial commitment of time, energy, and emotion. or “On what social channel can I find my audience?”.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

To help our colleagues build the skills they would need to handle fast-moving technology, we spent a lot of time talking with thought leaders. Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association, will share how APA used these techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. See you there!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 12, 2022

We live in a time when many social and environmental crises beg us to rethink not just what we call ourselves, but more importantly, how we get the good work done. First is the perceived constraint in financial and time capacity, and the second is the internal culture. The implications are vast.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Now three months into 2021, it's time to check in on your progress with your 2021 New Year's Resolutions. As a reminder, here is a list of 70 possible resolutions for leaders. Congratulations if you selected some of these earlier and are making progress on them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Now that we are halfway through 2021, it's time to check in on your progress with your 2021 New Year's Resolutions. As a reminder, here is a list of 70 possible resolutions for leaders. Congratulations if you selected some of these earlier and are making progress on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

The way it works is they invite a “host&# to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds. Backstory: we know they have time and need money / sometimes volunteers. Is there something missing on the list?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

If you need another resolution to tackle this year or haven't yet selected one, now is a good time to review this list below.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Give feedback in a timely manner and make it individualized and specific. Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events. Be willing to change your decisions.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. A tech staff, with some time on their hands, could have an out-of-the-box AI interacting with your members fairly quickly. A bot that integrates with your data will require more time and expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With 2024 fast approaching, it's a good time to identify your New Year's Resolutions for next year. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2024.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a major gift fundraiser who wants advice on whether it’s better to ask for too little or too much. . This technique can be flipped for current donors by using something called “ door in the face.”

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2021

” Layering advocacy, strategy, dealing with barriers and some go-to techniques, Cierra laid out a plan for all of us to build powerful brands from the inside out. . ” The perfect recap of a day full of new ideas and techniques to take our missions and our marketing to the next level! Not with Julia.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 2, 2022

Using the right tools and techniques makes it easy to get more out of your association’s online community. . You just need the right tools and techniques in place to take it to the next level. . Create a newcomer group where new members can ask questions and discuss topics so that they feel at home in your association right away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

It isn’t just the huge uptick in back-to-back virtual meetings we are hosting or attending, many times without breaks in between. As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out.

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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. ” questions.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

Continuously Learn and Adapt: It’s important to design processes and implement systems that allow for the continual training of models with new data to improve the accuracy and relevance of responses over time. The interface should be intuitive and responsive, providing quick, relevant, and accurate answers to user questions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Dennis Schatz from the Pacific Science Center contributed: How do we find the RIGHT questions for visitor participation? I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past 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. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Holding questions about power and privilege in mind, is it still justifiable that such waste is required of nonprofits? Time Spent Filling Out the Form (<1 percent). questions) that are similar and shared by many funders.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Online support: Add AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to your website to answer frequently asked questions, process donations, and provide donors with round-the-clock support. For example, if you’re using a chatbot to answer queries on your site, you could measure response time, user satisfaction, and query resolution.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

It seems like you have to answer the same questions over and over in every grant proposal. And in longer government proposals, sometimes it seems like you have to answer the same question twice right in the same application! Transcript: Writing grant proposals is a time-intensive process, and it can often feel repetitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Dennis Schatz from the Pacific Science Center contributed: How do we find the RIGHT questions for visitor participation? I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I wouldn’t be surprised if TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2023 ends up being ChatGPT. If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. Only one person talks at a time. Toward the end of the book is Appendix C, which lists 45 core questions to help you assess job applicants. Building an outrageously talented team. Catalyzing electric meetings. No side conversations.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

In philanthropy, there can also be worries of time commitment, grantee burden, complicated methods and, frankly, resources circling the drain without adding any function or value. We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

We sat down with Diane Remin, the Founder and President of MajorDonors.com , to discuss techniques on making an ask and how major gift work has transitioned online as a result of the pandemic. Technique 1: Ask Donor For A Specific Amount of Money. Instead, embrace the silence and use this time to observe the donor’s core reaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals 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. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

This makes it easier to focus on the content while handling additional questions, troubleshooting and technical problems. It’s Time for Next Generation Virtual Collaboration by Civicist – tips for online collaboration. Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. List of Energizers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2022

Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Give feedback in a timely manner and make it individualized and specific. Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events. Be willing to change your decisions.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

Time to cut the superfluous. We’ve featured their work too many times to count (here and here and here, for example), and John has generously guest-presented a number of times on MotivateMonday. As an email subscriber, each week you’ll get a new “micro” essay about 1 principle or technique. Very Good Copy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Think about it: have you ever had a friend and the only time you heard from them was when they wanted something? How about one that mooches all the time and never says “thank you”? Still others need some time to adjust to a life away from the track. This is no time for “Dear Friend.” Don’t be that person to your donors.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

That means now is the perfect time to take stock of where your organization stands, especially as we head into the always-busy year-end giving season. The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. An intuitive donation experience is critical for securing first-time gifts and encouraging future ones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a technique that you can use for nearly any type of campaign that will help you achieve the best results and the lowest cost per result: it’s all about targeting broadly, having lots of creative variations and giving Facebook time to learn. . 6) Your Facebook campaigns need time to learn.

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