Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization. Community managers need to be the “Internal Evangelist” for these companies.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives. If a four-year-old can articulate the design message of an exhibit and respond to it accordingly, surely an adult can as well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses. OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Imagine your intern runs up with a first draft of an article for the site, what are the chances it is perfect and requires no edits? Blank slate generative AIs (chatbots that don’t have context on your organization/data) are like over-confident interns. And remember, always check any facts because this intern didn’t.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2021

As we develop branded products, we may find ourselves bending to internal politics or the influence of a board member, or maybe we strive too hard be diplomatic. 3) Speak the language of your community. And often we overexplain! See more at cbsteaneck.org and on Facebook @CBSTeaneck. ALYN Hospital.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Articulate it clearly. They may not agree with you, but if you can couch your goals in the context of agreed-upon strategic language, you can use that language as a shield as you pursue action. It's powerful to have a big vision for where you are going. So start with a goal. And then find small ways to start fighting for it.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

When done well, these statements breathe the essence of your organization into language that can reach diverse audiences. When done poorly, they can become sources of confusion for both internal and external audiences. Well-crafted statements give them the language and the confidence to make the important asks!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Is that when fundraising expectations are clearly articulated during recruitment 52% of CEOs report that their boards are actively engaged in an organization’s fundraising efforts. Steven: I love that.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Values: Your values are the guiding principles that shape your organization’s internal culture and guide every activity, program, and action you take to better the world. Keep these tips in mind when creating your CTAs: Be specific: Make sure your CTA language accurately describes the action you want your supporters to take.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that? What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations?

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

When it comes to authoring original eLearning courses for your association’s members, there are generally two paths forward: Purchase course authoring software and tackle the project internally. Articulate 360. Articulate 360 is a suite of eLearning authoring apps to align with your various authoring tasks.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

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. We want to replicate our model across the country.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And Canada’s 180 international development agencies, what makes you different from them? Some of them are, you know, doing child sponsorship, others long-term international development, others emergency work. So there’s one thing that makes your organization stand out. and so money doesn’t go to the cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Teaching in an international context. I like those the most, but often have to delete them from presentations in an international context. I was also impressed with the report out, not only were they brief and to the point, but they were able to clearly articulate social outcomes in the social media strategy. NGOS in India.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Do get your team on the same page and set a reach goal internally. Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. This is a good place to start. Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 19, 2022

Articulate bold, positive steps you are taking to fix the problem. Don’t repeat negative or inflammatory language from the reporter. Even a denial using such language can be repeated as from you in the story. Don’t be argumentative.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Do get your team on the same page and set a reach goal internally. Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both their appeal language and on their CTA. This is a good place to start. Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. Failure of NIH drug testing design An exhibit only in a language other than English Santa Claus – Real or Not? Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language. And for bonus points, they also include a donate button in plain sight!). Meet the Residents page.

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