Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Brainstorming generates creative solutions to a problem in the hope of finding the best solution. The first time you do it, you ask each person to respond to the idea with the word no, then say their idea.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A brand guidelines document is a set of rules and standards defending the use of different components of your brand. To understand this you need to invest time and resources into Audience Research. But the problem with being all things to all people is that you will go from having a brand to being so bland that no one will notice you.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2017

It is time to experiment with new ways of solving social or environmental problems. To use a much overused word, it is time to think innovatively. Of course, this means looking at that problem from a fresh perspective and not being afraid to consider a new approach, even though it may be unpopular. Dare to Be Bold.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What you want to do is copy and paste the specific questions into a Word document and respond thoroughly to each question. These will automatically be your headers in the document, and you will bold these headers. Now the next step in needs is to include a main Problem Statement. Most people don’t write grants with this in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Does data collection may occur from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. It is helpful to look at making the switch as an evolutionary process.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Unfortunately, many founders or leaders skip creating one — which generally leads to fundraising frustrations and stalled services, among other problems. Without a guide or roadmap to get you where you want to go, you can spend a lot of time floundering. Maybe they don’t know what a nonprofit business plan can do to help them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value. We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Therefore, they’re hesitant to invest significant time or resources. A strong brand is what generates and sustains engagement in the time between these two points. When a donor or a volunteer decides to give their funds or time, they have a plethora of organizations through which to do so.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 28, 2007

Other times we find ourselves staring in dismay at a 100 page Software Requirements Statement detailing field lengths and report structures, to which we are expected to respond in detail. It's not a problem of having to much or not enough of a requirements statement. These guys have gone to a lot of effort.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2006

In my last post , I was pondering the problems in the communication process between users and technology assitance providers - problems that are so pervasive they have given rise to a whole series of internet jokes. Only after they are articulated will the techy become responsible for providing a solution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

A lot of times in our business we hear the phrase Membership Management. No problem!" The process involves trying to articulate the goals of each aspect of your program as measurable objectives, and then carrying out these assessments. We even call one of our modules Membership Managment. There's lots of those.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

Your mission statement should articulate your organization’s purpose, values, and goals. Your mission statement should be a living document that evolves as your organization and community change. Define the problem: Identify the specific problem or issue you want to address through data analysis.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Being busy or even spending volumes of time on something aren’t equivalent to doing something well. Elizabeth) Women are particularly prone to feeling guilty about taking time to care for themselves, perhaps because it feels at odds with societal expectations of women as caregivers. Other times, I enjoyed doing research at night.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And we’re going to save time at the end for Q&A. So I don’t want to take any time away from, Jesse. I’ll reference this a couple more times throughout. And then I started to kind of document that and using some of those strategies for clients and we saw really great results, and that was encouraging.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. Science is political, and science museums have a hard time grappling with that fact. And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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