Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. The long and short of it is this: Do the required research, budgeting, and due diligence up front to ensure a fair offer and avoid lowballing a qualified candidate. As we move forward, we invite you to do the same. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake. There are lots of ways to collect data on the current practices of your organization- common best practices are surveying and interviewing. What Wyman did: We conducted 50 interviews in an organization with 33 full time staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

User Research. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. Information Architecture.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Purposes for personas include: Help synthesize and articulate what we learn about constituents through user research. User Research. Surveys and Interviews.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Quantitative research has shown that board giving has the greatest impact on overall fundraising success. And, based on extensive interviews with board members, we found that their giving is tied directly to their experience on that board. Research prospects. Who is your dream board member? Boards are not one-size-fits-all.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2013

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. User Research. Personas are a tool that we often use right in between User Research and Information Architecture. Personas in the Design Process. Information Architecture. Visual Design.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

” But after doing research , we learned that nonprofits rarely filled in the year 4 or year 5 – not due to laziness, but because the world has gotten more complex.” A business plan tests the proposition in the vision and based on research determines whether it is economically and operationally viable.

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

Dr. Hicken and I interviewed one of the three editors who put this book together, Mary G. In our interview, Dr. Hicken and I prompted Dr. Turco to discuss editorial decisions and specific chapters she felt deserved special call out for the readers of this blog.

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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 work on mood boards in parallel with the User Research and Information Architecture phases so that the aesthetic is already defined by the time the Wireframes are complete.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

But… you might find something interesting if you do a little research. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Often when a person struggles to put something into words, it means the issue is very important to them and they want to articulate it in an accurate way. Some are Internet ghosts.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance. User Research. Surveys and Interviews. Stay tuned! Other Posts in this Series.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Step #2) R – Research the needs Having appropriate R esearch in the needs section is critical to scoring high on a grant proposal. The reason is that research anchors and validates the entire reason for your project. This will give more validity for your program and show that you’ve done the research.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

As Mario Morino states in his latest Leap of Reason Newsletter , which includes a summary of an interview with Einhorn Family Charitable Trusts’ Jennifer Hoos Rothberg about their Grantee Perception Report: While EFCT rigorously tracks outcome measurements, it doesn’t use that information punitively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

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?’” And, as stubborn as it sounds Mr. He also recommends that you formulate the right questions and use the right measures.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2013

It’s still of utmost value though to get all of your stakeholders in a room to articulate what you’re trying to do and to build consensus across the team. Once this step is complete, it’s on to User Research. Stay tuned for my next post to learn about using Analytics data as a form of User Research. User Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Last night I had a wonderful conversation with Corey Pudhorodsky who is the and brains behind 501c3Cast - Podcast for Nonprofits , a weekly podcast show of interviews and news about Nonprofit volunteers, do-gooders, and professionals. As the interview progresses, he is making notes on paper about the juicy segments, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I interviewed technology practitioners from the poverty law community about how they approach ROI and significant technology systems investments like client databases, document assembly systems, or video conference systems. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? If they seem organized and if they can articulate a careful game plan to you in plain English, thats great. Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. It was done with about $250,000 of market research about what girls knew, liked about science, how they wanted to be approached about science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Market Research. Sometimes with additional data collection or secondary research you can. Staff Interviews. Observation.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can even interview beneficiaries, volunteers, staff, or board members to give your telethon viewers a look into the impact your organization is having on your community. According to our research , 57% of people who watch a nonprofit video go on to make a donation. Make sure you actively encourage viewers to make donations.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Step 2: Conduct Research. Market research is an important step in the planning process. If you’re just starting, then market research could be: Research the competition. Analysis of your environment. Get social.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in. In my first six months, I got to help research and install a temporary exhibition, manage youth and adult programs, start a podcasting program, and learn how to run department budgets. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. These stories need to be written down and it sparked a memory of a conversation I had with Zittrain at iLaw in 2005 who pointed me to a researcher at HBS who was looking at Open Source Software Communities.). Click to Play - Adam Thompson Interview.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Compared to when fundraising expectations are not clearly articulated during board recruitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. Kari came to my house a half hour before the interview went live. Ustream also has a feature that lets you put a marker in the video and tweet that section of the interview.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The 182-page book includes detailed descriptions of projects, budgets, and decision-making processes, along with extensive interviews with artists, curators, and museum staff of all stripes. You can tell they are wondering why you are here but they don’t necessarily want to articulate it, so you just get this weird vibe. I know I did.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. Then, use the web and social networking for research. In past postings Ive shared Marriotts core values.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At the same time, leaders continue to struggle with one of their toughest jobs, developing and articulating their overall strategy and priorities, especially during times of change." Then, use the web and social networking for research. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone. Then, call a meeting to discuss those solutions.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

A couple of years ago, NTEN articulated how broad adoption of open API’s could help nonprofits spend more time on their missions and less time de-duping their databases. Seriously tho, great interview! API’s and web services have had and will continue to have a large and positive impact on nonprofits. Hope youre doing well!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And there’s lots of research. And a lot of major donors we found there’s a big research study and 50,000 plus donors. Where I’ll say to somebody, “You know, you’ve been so articulate about why you care about the work, would you write a testimonial?” So simplicity is your friend here. .

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