Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor, AARP gave primer about developmental evaluation – what it is, how it is applied, how it different from other methods, and why it is useful in evaluating complex systems projects. You can l isten to the video or view her slides here. Here are my notes and takeaways.

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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

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. Finally, the IT is the system and design thinking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially. Finally, and most importantly, behaviors and decisions reflect character.

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2016

Now is the time when I should mention that the users surveyed were not Gyrus Systems Users and that the easiest resolution would be to explore our most recent release of GyrusAim. Focus on how the system parameters push you to corners, and bend the needs of the organization to fit the limitations of that system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Paul has to use ROI techniques to help the organization make the best decision. Episode #3: No Buy-In Pauline works for an organization that is using all manual systems - with an overtaxed copy machine - work grounds to a halt because important procedures/documents are hopelessly out of date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

True inclusion and equal representation of all people requires overhauling both systems and ways of thinking. True inclusion and equal representation of all people requires overhauling both systems and ways of thinking. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. Change Organizational Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Equally comfortable improvising as necessary and also translating those improvised moves that worked into codified strategies, systems, processes and tools that help the organization continue to evolve. The article suggests that the skill of self-reflection is the secret sauce for learning how to become an agile learner.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

Let’s explain… The Elements of an Effective AI Image Prompt When creating an image prompt to generate an image with an AI system like Stable Diffusion, there are several key elements to consider: Subject and Concept : First, determine the subject or overall concept you want to convey in the image.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Within an increasingly complex digital landscape, particularly in light of the global pandemic, institutions rely on content strategists to use curatorial techniques and principles to bring their collections to virtual audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

This recent article on INC by Emily Triplett Lentz “ Breaking Your Bad Work Habits ” summarizes Duhigg’s framework on habit change – Cue, Routine, Reward as she reflects on how she applied it to some of her bad work habits like bouncing from email to slack to social media without accomplishing anything.

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Gyrus

MAY 19, 2016

Gamification is fast emerging as an effective and exciting technique to engage with learners in the corporate training world. Gamification is the technique of using game elements and mechanics in the learning environment. Game elements such as achievement badges, leaderboards, point systems, level progressions, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Share Learning: To share learning, you have to intentionally hit the pause button and reflect. 3. Where are the gaps?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today, Van Gorder is the President and CEO at Scripps Health , one of America’s foremost health systems with 14,000 employees and 2,600 affiliated physicians. It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google answered these challenges with a system that ultimately became GA4, and announced no further development of UA. Google undoubtedly grew tired of updating and developing two tools that couldn’t accurately reflect the type of complex user journeys we see today, where people switch between apps, mobile browsers, and desktops frequently.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Today, Van Gorder is the President and CEO at Scripps Health , one of America’s foremost health systems with 14,000 employees and 2,600 affiliated physicians. It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

I’ve noticed on Google + that it is useful participate in the threads of other people’s posts where good reflective conversations are happening related to topics and ideas I am interested in learning more about. Ask clarifying questions, provide links to useful links that answer someone’s questions. #

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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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. Photo by Beth Kanter. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. Call this “social change 2.0”. Networks'

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In these meetings present the employees with real-life practice problems or perhaps current departmental issues that best reflect the teachings of the lessons. It can also consist of reinforcement of techniques and procedures. Let the students interact with each other on what they have learned. Reinforcement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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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 ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

I'm still dancing on the edges between action and reflection, but wanted to get down some of my evolving next action steps and questions for reflection. How can I improve my live blogging technique and better integrate with personal networking? a huge task and have got to figure out an efficient system.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Establish user profiles in your new system and associate those posts with the previous social accounts in question. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. Old comment sections on previous learning exercises are perfect fodder to experiment with social learning. Promote additional materials through social components.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising. According to research done by Mason Academic Research System, 85% of donors prefer to be asked by friends and family to make a donation. And the same goes for philanthropic recommendations. Moving Forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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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. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Does not have a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Today, Van Gorder is the President and CEO at Scripps Health , one of America’s foremost health systems with 14,000 employees and 2,600 affiliated physicians. It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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