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

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. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value. 

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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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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

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

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. Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.) Photo by Beth Kanter.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 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 ). Not Data Driven.”

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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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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. Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots.

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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. Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots.

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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. Happy New Year ! How about you? I write down stuff I won’t do, a “no thanks” list.

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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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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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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

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.

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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? Also, to add the babblefish translator to your blog. To Do List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Listening for Nonprofits in a Digital World View more presentations from kanter.

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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. Be sure to subscribe to our blog, and join us as we further investigate learning industry topics. Promote additional materials through social components.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. 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.

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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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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. Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots.

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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

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. Stay tuned to Acumen Fund's blog for more news on this soon! Photo by Thomas Hawk.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

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 physicans. Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots.

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Leadership Attitude Chapter Culture 67

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system. Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand. Measure all fundraising metrics.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month on my blog. There are official rules written by lawyers to protect the corporation and presumably to ward off cheating, gaming the system, or unfair play. For Pepsi, the top prize is $250,000.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Your blog, if you have one. The visual design of your website should be bold and accurately reflect your organization’s brand or identity. Your homepage, “about us” page, your newsfeed or blog, and your donation page are the bare essentials. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2007

As a result, I'm reflecting on my comfort level. But wait a minute, what if I could create a screencast out of a screensharing session or using a web conference system like Ready/Talk that offers video/audio recording? I haven't been able to locate an article or interview where he talks specifically about this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results? Unique Blog Readers. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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