Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2021

You don’t begin personally building the relationships and starting the conversations that your campaign will need to succeed. . While their thoughts are extremely helpful, they may feel pressured to come up with or overstate concerns that they wouldn’t have articulated otherwise. Potential Downsides of a Hands-On Approach.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. But I forced myself to listen to the financial conversations at the Board meetings. I didn’t always follow the conversation, but I usually picked up a nugget. One look at the budget and I would glaze over.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Maybe you’re putting together your email calendar for December, planning out social media content, or even sprucing up your website to improve conversions. If you are looking to strengthen you Public Narrative model, you may want to look to your organization’s community for examples of Story of Self. 30 Minute Storytelling Workouts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

But many networks need a private place or password protected place to have conversations online. This need isn't about being 'scared of social media" but rather a need for a safe place online to have conversations around very sensitive topics to build trust and relationships. Modeling community norms can be incredibly valuable. (See

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

“I have embraced this approach myself and I make it clear to my team that I would rather not get a pre-dawn email , but instead get a more fully articulated idea after they have had time to contemplate it and strategize on how to make it effective.”. Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model.

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

You soldier on and set up Google Analytics, hoping that the data can start a conversation with everyone, despite the initial reluctance. You can increase that number exponentially if you know where previous conversions came from. Looking for new newsletter signups?

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Culture Data Create Case Study 36

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Whether the staff is asked on a plane, in an elevator or on a panel, he or she should be able to articulate in 30 to 60 seconds what their charity does. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit.

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Mentoring Work Phoenix Nonprofit 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digital age? KD Paine , Queen of Measurement, ( interviewed by Jason ) shares an important insight "Ultimately, the key question to ask when measuring engagement is, ‘Are we getting what we want out of the conversation?’” Do you agree? Think I'm full of it?

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ROI Social Media Media Measure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

I designed and facilitated “ A Global Conversation: Free Agents and Nonprofits in a Networked World ” at the SXSWi Interactive over the weekend as an opportunity to experiment with some of these ideas. As many of you know, I’m comfortable with public learning, so using this post to share what I learned. My takeaways: 1.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2017

And while the conversation around nonprofit branding is gaining momentum, many nonprofit leaders continue to hold a narrow perspective on what it means to build and leverage a strong, needle-moving brand. The problem with that view, or brand model, is that it’s no longer enough, especially in today’s competitive giving environment.

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Guidelines Nonprofit Retention Articulate 31

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Gallery Talks become conversations instead of lectures (well, for some audiences). In the end, our organization for this model better for our visitors and our needs. We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected. Signage goes from subtle enough to be hidden to useful to visitors. What went awry?

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Audience Museum Classes Library 38

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. So with that, what we wanted to do is start our conversation by understanding your understanding of key trends in philanthropy.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. Most people won’t change their behaviors until they observe the role models in their organization acting. The organization’s leadership needs to model and encourage a data-driven approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

pdf) starts the conversation and attempt to address a method to quantify influence. This voice, articulated through social media, can be extremely powerful and can force individuals, companies and communities to change the way they behave. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

But the answers hewed to the priorities articulated through these two exercises. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a response or question, you can join the conversation here. In the end, we signed a contract that answered all the big questions about how to manage the project. Any contract would have done that.

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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Participatory Music Project Video 48

Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Iterative prompt refinement forces clearer articulation of intent and goals upfront, enabling more aligned responses. Rewrite these parts in a more conversational and accessible tone. Few-shot prompting : Providing a model with a small number of real examples to adapt to a new task or genre. Enter refining and iterative prompts.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

We want to replicate our model across the country. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” But they didn’t know how to take that relationship, grow it in that peer-to-peer kind of CEO to CEO type of investment level conversational language and lead them to their best gift. So we want to double the families.

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 109

sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, Danny McCall beautifully articulates the challenge of defining this dyad in his whitepaper, The Durable Relationship : Although “relationship” is a commonly used word, having an actionable comprehension of a relationship’s dimensions and forces isn’t a trivial matter. Deep, rich relationships have an origin story.

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Relationship Data Build Gift 72

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Our conversation began with my asking Temra, "How are women changing the way we eat?" Otherwise, there are co-ownership models that are interesting today where you can have people from the city that are buying into your farm, and then they have part ownership. In addition to the parks department model, we're seeing it here.

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Interview Authoring Change Oakland 72

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 What this allowed, finally, was precise and generalizable conversation and learning. It was by articulating it that Oldenberg allowed a common platform of understanding through which others could develop, debate and refine these concepts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language).

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Detroit Arts Public Support 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

What I loved about this exercise, is that after Stephanie and I modeled taking photographs and sharing on our Facebook Group or Twitter, participants started to also document digitally. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. I had this dream that I would write about a topic they cared about, send them an email about it, and maybe the conversation would go somewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already.

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to find examples of some if the concepts I was going to share from the group itself. This helps spark peer conversations and indeed a quick check of the chat transcript shows it to be case. Networked Nonprofits have articulated SMART objectives and a target audience for their Facebook page. Introduction.

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Facebook Network Museum Nonprofit 111

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

You'll quickly see that a conversation is happening about your institution--and you do not control it. But that doesn't mean you can't be a part of it, either by actively inserting your voice, supporting discussion on your own site (a la Brooklyn Museum), or, in the model of the game designers, trying to steer it. Read the comments.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Format conversion tools. Some course authoring software platforms have built-in format conversion tools to help with this effort. Articulate 360. Articulate 360 is a suite of eLearning authoring apps to align with your various authoring tasks. There are also enterprise licensing options for larger teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To set the stage for this exploration, Bill Somerville, founder and President of Ventures Foundation shared some ideas from his experience. He spoke about the need for the model of community foundation philanthropy to innovate. Afterwards, I facilitated a reflective conversation about the various ideas – what were the patterns?

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Foundation Design Community Work 102

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

Gourevitch isn't a great journalist because he tells great stories; it's because he asks us to question those stories and provides a model for doing so. Instead of providing opportunities for visitors to leave comments or register their opinions, give them opportunities to articulate the questions the exhibition brings up.

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Issue Design Question Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

While requiring people to build their virtual designs required more work (and expertise) from them, it also allowed them to clearly articulate their designs and to engage on a more professional, specific level about the exhibits. Some museum professionals asked me, "couldn't the participants have just described their exhibit in text?"

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

But we're trying to model a kind of conversation with important people, powerful people, but particularly knowledgeable people, where we say--YOU can go up to a person with a lot of knowledge and ask him "why?," Effectively, Robert is saying that Radiolab isn't just a show where the hosts have conversations with scientists.

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Conversation Arts Museum Voice 20

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It’s not going to happen though unless you begin the conversation. And then you also need to be able to articulate that, without fundraising or without a steady income from which to draw upon, you could cease to exist. ” And that’s the conversation that you want to have. Steven: Yeah, so true.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For attendance to be correlated with impact, you have to find a way to articulate a theory of change that connects attendance to your mission (inspiration, learning, civic participation, etc.). That means 10% is your conversion factor; if you want to sell 5 pairs of shoes, you need fifty people to walk through the door.

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