Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? Getting Ideas for Campaigns or Programs. This drove traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. 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. Tags: training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Make Time for Reflection. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

. Screen capture here : I've been running small experiments on the art of retweeting for a couple of weeks and it's time for a reflection. . Closing the Triangle : This is a network weaving technique of introducing people in your network. Tags: experimentation twitter. Which of these do you think gets retweeted most often?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Chris Brogan and David Eckoff gave a killer session about setting priorities and time management techniques. I got some good feedback and will post some reflections in a bit. I bumped into Millie Garfield who shared some reflections about her "virtual" blogging friends. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ?

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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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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JUNE 24, 2010

In one simple graphic, it shows how effective your marketing is and where you can apply changes to achieve increasing results. Experiment for 3 weeks and compare the results. But wait, these are terrible results! First they are likely to start changing the tactics you're using to improve the results.

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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. I asked her how she managed her time to be able to get such great results for the organization’s campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The learning that results is what brings your more success. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) Tags: experimentation googleanalytics reflection sandbox socialmediametrics. Avinash feels that in a world of finite resources, it is very important to experiment and fail fast.

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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

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. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Not everyone’s experiment showed breath taking results in the beginning, middle, and even towards the end of the two months. 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. What were the results? ­-If

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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

MAY 29, 2009

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

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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? As a result, there are some gaps that we don’t have the time to give the attention that they deserve, or we have tried to find replacements and have been unable to come up with anything with which we are happy. Tags: crowdsourcing.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

You’ll learn how to navigate a search engine results page with confidence and amplify your nonprofit’s reach and engagement in organic search. It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag. Much like title tags, it’s important to include any important keywords from the page in header tags.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. After a very successful three days I had some time to reflect about what made this technology initiative such a success. Tags: Collaboration Communication Strategy Technology. Be creative AND flexible.

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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 ). It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. What are the results? Use of metrics to measure your results. Results translated into dollar value (donations or time saved). Is it worth it?

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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 LinkedIn experiment resulted in about 56 specific conference leads.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The show coupled an uncomfortable ex-evangelical sharing deceitful techniques he had engaged in with a minister named Jim Henderson talking about " doable evangelism ," a practice that doesn't rely on what he deemed "acting like jerks." Thank people for coming, and encourage them to reflect on the visit's outcomes. What do you think?

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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. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 here , using the ICT4peace tag. Generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Are the results different? It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. Tags: sxsw training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The lab used human design facilitation techniques that I have been trained on by Luma Institute. We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). The donor could continue to refine his or her search results to find the best nonprofit “match.”

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Fundraising techniques, such as peer-to-peer, crowdfunding, and special event fundraising (especially if you’re looking at how to move your events to virtual). You can easily reflect your fundraising goals, end date, and impact on #GivingTuesday using CauseVox’s free crowdfunding sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. Tags: india. No wonder I am still tired! It always helps me improve practice. Customize once you get on-site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. Objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you. To get better results, focus on the cause and the story versus the institution. Workshop/Training Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

The report presents a framework for measuring social media effectiveness against those business results and presents standardized metrics. Analytics and Measurement Techniques" (free to download). What insights have you discovered from measuring your social media strategy and reflecting on the results? .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This essay, written in 1991, reflects Elaine's experience on the planning staff for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the Mall as an "insider/outsider"--a "hired gun" with museum know-how facilitating the creation of someone else's museum. She was an intended insider--someone who NMAI was supposedly both "by" and "for."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work.

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