Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Discussing the "results" from a social object hunt often leads to an interesting discussion about the difference between exhibits that are popular and those that are social. The result would be a web of connections or pathways to follow through the gallery. Tags: design participatory museum. Where would you like them to be?

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Museum Technique Taiwan Social 41

Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey. The survey also covers strategies for increasing matching gifts; the effectiveness of various techniques, tools, and vendors; and stewardship ideas. Tags: Fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Discuss this both from the perspective of which questions were easy to answer and which yielded interesting results. I find it to be really useful because it helps people quickly see that there IS a difference in how people respond to different questions, and that designing better questions can yield more interesting results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. " You read an excerpt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. My points were simple: 1) Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it. Tags: 10ntc metrics. I'm still laughing. Our task was to present.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more. Many of you are frustrated by “just doing it,&# and feeling that your nonprofit communications impact suffers as a result. This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. Here's the topline results: There is extensive experimentation with social media in the nonprofit sector, but only half (51%) surveyed are active users. It takes time to get results, like anything else.

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Social Media Adopt Survey Media 95

NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2010

You probably already know that Google Grants gives qualified nonprofits free advertising in the form of Google Adwords, those little ads that appear on the right side of Google search results. well, I don't want to scare you away, because there are some simple rules and techniques you can use to get results right away.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. We could imagine just about any non-profit with a lightly visited website and little dedicated social media support being able to pull off the same sort of results. The results?

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NTEN

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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Facebook eBook Social Media Metrics 79

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2010

Ask multiple times during the year and use a variety of techniques. I’ve used these principles and steps many times, as a Development Director and as a coach, tobring about some amazing results in fundraising. Tags: General Fundraising Get Fully Funded nonprofit fundraising. Thank the donor. Build relationships.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2010

Ask multiple times during the year and use a variety of techniques. I’ve used these principles and steps many times, as a Development Director and as a coach, tobring about some amazing results in fundraising. Tags: General Fundraising Get Fully Funded nonprofit fundraising. Thank the donor. Build relationships.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It is important to develop effective listening techniques in order to make decisions and justify activities based on these stories. latest news, emergent issues, advocates) and use informed search techniques to find content and sources. Yikes, more than 30,000 results. A listing of 200 results is much more manageable.

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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

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. My tag or shout out also appeared on Manny's wall and it didn't take him long to reply with a link to his post about strategies for bilingual fan pages.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

where each installment ended with Pauline placed in a situation that looked sure to result in her imminent death but was able to escape at the beginning of the next installment. Paul has to use ROI techniques to help the organization make the best decision. Tags: ROI. The inspiration was Perils of Pauline.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

88 per-cent of the organizations said they had been cited in blogs as a result of their outreach efforts. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web? It’s already happening, so go there!

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Conversation Effective PDF Social Media 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'm most curious to see how Pepsi will demonstrate leadership in social marketing and of course the longer term result - social impact. applications resulted in severe backlash, and is now a case study on the infamous punk'd list. . Tags: contest. This is a big bold effort. Cultural mismatch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Closing the Triangle : This is a network weaving technique of introducing people in your network. After some rapid experimentation and testing different types of tweets and measuring results , for me -- wisdom/humor. Tags: experimentation twitter. I like to live tweet because it forces a discipline of listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

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. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Create Good Social Media Habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. The result can boost their mood and reduce stress.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 107

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

JANUARY 29, 2009

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. I would really LOVE to hear about stories about what keywords you've used and how the resulting listening brought some value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I decided to do an action learning experiment on these questions: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads than traditional techniques? After reading the Pew Internet Report, I decided to experiment with using tags for a social search on delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. Tags: ROI. Some in the audience are impatient.

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ROI Social Media Metrics Conference 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information. Four or five decades of organizational development and organization change theory, practice and results have shown us that.

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Management by walking around is a proven and effective technique, but it relies on employees being physically located together with the manager. We'll have to move to alternate methods of communication and examine results versus attendance. If we expect productivity and results, we need to measure them.

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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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Model Relationship Strategy Social 74

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. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Social Media Media Tips Social 98

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. The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. What is the best use of the resulting diagram? What are the features?

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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 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Learning and Metrics.

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

Get Fully Funded

JULY 2, 2009

This is my favorite technique for raising money and building relationships. Unfortunately, so many small nonprofits try to do it without knowing how to do it well, and they are disappointed with the results they get. Tags: Direct Mail. I’m a self-proclaimed direct mail geek and proud of it! The cost is just $249.

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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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