Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. Connecting Up Master Class. Circle and Workspace in New Zealand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections. Thinking through a strategy requires more reflection and discussion within the organization and some level of experience with the tools. Tags: wearemedia training materials technology training. Refine strategy based on listening first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. Tags: training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Wendy is a real team player and made the session a lot of fun! We explored people’s listening routines, perceptions about the value of listening, and specific tools and techniques. Showing Results: This method is for those have been applying listening techniques and want to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). Tags: guest blogging. If I had more bandwidth and if I had been more ambitious goals, I would have set up unique tracking URLs in bit.ly and tweeted these myself as well as ask the author to retweet with the unique URL. (See Have a post?

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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. Tags: ROI. I've created a couple of scenarios where IT staffers Paul or Pauline are faced with a typical ROI challenge. The three scenarios included: Episode #1; Fondle the Hammer Syndrome. His executive director wants to purchase Iphones for all staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh , a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time. Image by Ayyamsyria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. One value of a blog is at least I captured my reflections from several months ago and a workflow diagrams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. Tags: network weaving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it.

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MAY 31, 2023

There are a few essential tools when auditing a website’s user privacy settings: #1 VPN Clients: You can visit the website from various countries to see if the cookie consent banner is updated to reflect the law of the land. Platforms like Plausible Analytics and Matomo are worth consideration for privacy-first analytics.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. Why is Google making this change? Google believes GA4 better predicts audience needs and provides better data.

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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. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. We covered some strategy points, but also had the group tweeting. Participants got to introduce themselves with "just three tags," picking three key words that describe them. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Someone said, "Extension work is research based, how do you incorporate this technique?" These are shorter sessions focused on tagging. The first session will introduce tagging and social bookmarking and an exercise. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki.

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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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JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. To recap: we took advantage of popular techniques for sharing and networking conversations including URL shorteners and hashtags.

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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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.

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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? Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon These are in no particular order!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run. Lisa Bunker (@mutabilis) March 10, 2013. Movement helps wake them up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience.

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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. Tags: wearemedia.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibits), Rob Semper (Exploratorium) and I hosted a wide-ranging discussion session on design techniques for developing projects that involve both online and onsite elements. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research. Leary (NRG!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Reflection at the end to harvest learnings. Tags: scholar working wikily. Photo by Goldberg. And, sand boxes are social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. . I've written endlessly about the techniques of listening, metrics, reflection and reiteration. Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story. Tags: powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. Tags: mobile. How does she feel about text to give? Trepidatious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) Tags: experimentation googleanalytics reflection sandbox socialmediametrics. I've summarized a couple of the tips he offers about methods for testing. (1) That's just about when I discovered.

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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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