ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. This is an exclusive learning and networking experience just for executive directors, senior-level managers and emerging executives of nonprofit and public organizations.

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Participatory Culture Leadership Washington 98

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We experimented! Take the time to thoughtfully articulate them. Experiments involve testing out new ideas, approaches, beliefs, and behaviors. Experiments are an important part of how people change. Do you think you’re absorbing this information in a manner that helps you to grow? Values are powerful.

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Learning Change Strategy Journal 93

BoardAssist

JANUARY 30, 2018

Can and do board members articulate this focus to others, particularly potential donors? Can board and staff clearly articulate what will be different as a result of the campaign? Have the board and staff tested the proposed campaign plan with prospective donors? Has this been objectively tested?

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Campaign Fundraising Articulate Indianapolis 40

Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Craft a clear and compelling message Develop a case for support , a concise and persuasive message to articulate the importance of legacy giving. I always test my written and/or visual messages with a small group of five to ten trusted colleagues before disseminating them more broadly. Please let us know in the comments section below.

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Gift Practice United States New York City 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

His response: Looking: Observing human experience. We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice. This lead into another technique we practiced called “Think Outloud User Testing,” where we conducted a user test of our paper prototype.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs What is a nonprofit? In the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Files Policy Software 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Vikki Spruill, Ocean Conservancy 's President and CEO and members of her communications team, Laura Burton Capps, and Dove Coggeshall about their recent experiments and learning on Facebook. She initiated a discussion about how to test some of Shirky's ideas. Easier said than done.

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Conservancy Reflection Social Media Learning 100

Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Usability Tests : Types of usability tests you can conduct, participant recruiting, task definition and creating a prototype. Visual Design : How we articulate the creative vision for the site and combine the aesthetic with the solid foundation of User Research and Information Architecture.

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Summary Process Design Web 37

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Where would you like to test your hypotheses against actual research? If you’re struggling to articulate your objectives, consider partnering with a nonprofit marketing consultant early in your market research process. You’d then draft research questions and strategies to test whether these assumptions are true.

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Research Marketing Survey Nonprofit 52

NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Even the most technically articulate board members will start to push back if they have to remember a handful of different log-ins and passwords, or have to learn too many different tools or systems. In the meantime, we want to hear from you: What has your experience been with getting buy-in from your nonprofit board?

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Collaboration Tools Adopt Journal 59

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How can these two perspectives be aligned to maximize the experience for both parties? Do you have similar levels of knowledge and experience or are the parties at least willing to learn from each other? The client will need to articulate what is pretty to them by showing examples of sites they would describe as pretty.

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Web Tips Articulate Project 40

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In my experience, the answer to that question is dependent on the organization. And, based on extensive interviews with board members, we found that their giving is tied directly to their experience on that board. The chance to do work with an impassioned, articulate, and engaged CEO behind whom they can rally. Don’t pigeonhole.

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Articulate Greece History Goal 27

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Some organizations come to us with a very clearly articulated brand that has accompanying logos, fonts, colors, photography, copywriting and more. We like to be sure that we have a design for each level of navigation for a site and also for each responsive breakpoint so the team can see a clear picture of the entire user experience.

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Design Process Web Photography 34

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Roadblock #1 – Muffing the Mobile Experience. Yet “road tests” of the user experience for events not using a mobile responsive registration form, showed that it was impossible to select a Registration Type for an event – a key first step in the registration process. Roadblock #2 – Losing the Magic. Next Steps.

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Registration Benchmark Photography Stats 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

It is always an inspiring learning experience. This year, one of my favorite authors, Greg McKeown, who wrote Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less , gave a talk about the ideas in his book. I wanted to combine design thinking with Essentialism , so participants could experiment, have fun, and development this discipline.”

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Interview Exercise Life Children 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. Whenever an intern takes a prototype out on the floor, I ask her, “What might change about this project based on this test?” Some experiments fail.

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Culture Build Museum Articulate 53

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. In the debrief to the experience I asked people what they thought they might take back to their institutions from the workshop. The comment that brought me up short was “This was great.

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Place Museum Environment Problem 52

DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

To brand your organization and ensure that branding is maintained across your marketing platforms, you’ll need to design a comprehensive brand narrative that will last the test of time and communicate that clearly across all who are in charge of conveying it. Consider how your brand will last the test of time.

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Guide Guidelines Nonprofit Mind 52

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Purposes for personas include: Help synthesize and articulate what we learn about constituents through user research. Usability Tests. Interactive Web Design communication design discovery interactive Non-Profit nonprofit Nonprofit web design nonprofit website nonprofits user experience user research web design website'

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Design Process Web PowerPoint 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments. identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Forj

APRIL 24, 2018

With a lot of competition for their information needs and with very little time to invest in it, physicians need to believe in the value of your learning experience before they will engage with it. Never use the Articulate setting that forces the learner to listen to every second of voiceover. Respect their time. or 2x speed.

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San Antonio Tips Technique Articulate 20

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. Usability Tests. Interactive Web Design communication design discovery interactive Non-Profit nonprofit Nonprofit web design nonprofit website nonprofits user experience user research web design website' Surveys and Interviews.

Design 36

Design Process Content Web 36

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.

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Facilitation Channel Social Media Global 98

NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Based on this nine-month experience, we produced the Collaboration Report , a comprehensive analysis of our learnings and best practices. We discovered that if you are in the role of promoting collaboration among others, you need to articulate your definition of collaboration and what your expectations are for outcomes.

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Collaboration Test Roles Goal 28

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Make your Giving Tuesday campaign a peer-to-peer experience. Try a peer-to-peer experience to boost the impact of your campaign and acquire more donors that you can then steward after Giving Tuesday. A reliable auction platform also makes it easy to pivot this experience to the virtual space! Test your donation form in advance.

Campaign 98

Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

So, as I made my transition – keep in mind that I am still working a nonprofit, just a c4 instead of a c3 – the moment gave me reason to reflect upon the 10 years of experience I had at the Alliance and with colleagues across the country through the National Council of Nonprofits. I first tried to remember what it was like in 2005.

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Reflection Arizona Nonprofit Classes 40

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

But several experiences and smart people have changed my perspective on this, and that's what this post is about. I've had bad direct experiences with high-priced PR firms that are slaves to antiquated promotion calendars. It allows us all to be involved in promoting and documenting experiences at the museum.

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Job Marketing Difference Museum 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle.

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Metrics Facebook Data Measure 96

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

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). A more connected population: Diverse groups share common experiences, hear new perspectives, understand each other better, etc.

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Detroit Arts Public Support 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments. Test and tweak. Defined Audience.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Museum professionals tend to be highly educated and museum experience results in a host of transferable skills such as project management, communications, and design. Your training and experience may position you to compete for well-paid jobs in other fields. Seema) I’m a big fan of articulating norms.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

This is also a great way to test and refine a taxonomy over time - an administrator can plan to look at the tags that don't map into anything in the taxonomy and decide if the taxonomy should be modified to include them. I wonder what we can learn from them?

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Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag 50

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2021

Lack of a structured process for quality assurance (QA) testing and remediation. Are they able to articulate this in straightforward language? How was their experience? QA testing finds and resolves bugs and ensures the product works as promised. A chaotic process for decision-making on design and other deliverables.

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Project Digital Work Tips 58

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Through our experience working with a number of unique organizations, we’ve seen firsthand how the right course authoring tools can impact learning offerings. With CourseStage LMS, you can create the following in your courses: Interactive video experiences. Articulate 360. Learning games. Hotspots and drag-and-drop features.

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

People with "leadership, empathy for what people like and don’t like, ability to sooth ruffled feathers, articulate." Critical people are sought after; "yes men" are not as useful as those who have clearly articulated issues with the game. Who are these influencers? Note that these people are selected, not self-selected.

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Game Influence Support Community 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Bob led a strategic planning process that articulated a deepened commitment to native people as “key players” in the development of projects related to their history and material culture. It was the beginning of an experiment. Gerry started to experience cognitive dissonance and a kind of dual consciousness of the bundles.

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Museum National Story Difference 20

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. What tests has a relationship been through together?

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Relationship Data Build Gift 73