Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. There are three major aspects of managing your volunteers: recruitment, training, and stewardship. Another way to steward your volunteers is to publicly thank them.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, chatbots can answer frequently asked questions, provide donation options, and even help donors set up recurring gifts. Whether it is images, audio, or videos, generative AI tools are able to 10x the production. Image tools: Stable Diffusion DALLE2 MidJourney Canva (now has lightweight image AI) Video Tools: Pictory.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Each video is only 1-4 minutes long, so you can even watch a few videos while eating lunch. Check out these videos about pivot tables.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s important to remember these prompt best practices when using AI content to ensure the best results: Proofread the work Fact check any information Check for plagiarism If you don’t have an expert graphic designer, AI can also help you edit any photos or videos you plan on using for your campaigns.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. Be fully prepared to answer the questions your donor probably already has in her mind. It’s a bit easier if you’re making a call or meeting with someone in person, but it can still be accomplished in other ways like in a video call or in writing. Thanks for meeting me.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. . Offers live streaming video. Has chat features (video and text). They can get rid of any inappropriate comments and deliver posted questions to the facilitator.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Rapid advances in technology and modern workforce needs are transforming the way, workforce learning & training is delivered and training courses are created. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. Mobile learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). explains the how and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. Spectragram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing. For this meeting, we asked two questions: What makes a meeting a good, productive use of your time?

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Then when it comes down to writing up a formal policy, take the following practical continuous learning foundations into consideration: An Open Environment – Establish to your employees early on that it is ok to ask questions when something is not understood.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Organizations will need to designate or work with someone who has a background in professional development and training as the organization’s learning concierge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. (The Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Design for Flexibility. Poster Sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. Leadership isn’t open. NGOS that work like fortresses.

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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. For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. Some really good design points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. To complement the Playbook, we organized a Peer Learning Exchange where participants could gather, share ideas and ask questions. What impact did all this have on communities?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These questions are reserved for scientists with a philosophical bent like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye to sort out. AI can be trained to mimic its programmer’s values, but it is unable to independently distinguish right from wrong or good from evil. Make appropriate training available. AI can only use the available data.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

TechSoup's product donation program includes easy-to-use Flip Video cameras that allow you to share your library and community stories. Flip Video's simple camcorders can be used by people with any level of video experience to create, edit, and share movies. Attend this free webinar on Thursday, June 17 at 11 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

If not, we’ll roll the video. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

There’s a question box and a chat box. If you want to get your answer questioned or your question answered, just a insider tip there. You can watch videos to really get a good sense of what we’re all about. But as we move through the presentation, here are a few questions to consider.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And so the question then comes into play, is it really time to go back?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. 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

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. What are your questions about content curation? I think there are many benefits for both individuals as well as the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice. Bernard leaves 8:45 Strategy consults at hotel - 9-11 Wireless Network Installation team returns to hotel - noon Training Team for Center of St. Friday, March 21.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

I've been given an opportunity to help by leading a training and sharing my experience with nonprofits and social media. A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Keynote welcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

It gets even better: Avinash is donates all proceeds from his books to two charities: The Smile Train and The Ekai Vidyalaya Foundation. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics. Harry and Sara say "Thank You Avinash" for the Google Schwag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. The are several answers to this question. This requires carefully thinking about comment moderation techniques and part of this includes articulating a clear policy about use of moderation. by Ken Fischer. Related articles by Zemanta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. Turn on your video whenever possible and be camera ready. This might include alphabetical order by first or last name or if you are using a video conference platform by order on the screen.

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