Neon CRM
OCTOBER 31, 2023
You can try: Sending donor surveys. Teaching them something. Try teaching people a fun fact or statistic related to your work. You could also try teaching them a fun new skill. These techniques can help. But how do you talk with people when you’re a nonprofit with a diverse audience?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 3, 2013
I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. These techniques will save blood, sweat, and tears down the road.
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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. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 18, 2012
What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 3, 2011
The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
The concept was genius — providing an app and free cell phone to the individuals in exchange for filling out the surveys. Completing the survey would get them more cell phone time. The concept included enlisting a telco partner who would provide the phones and data cards. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 5, 2011
1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. Ellie taught a great trick.
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