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. Character description.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Defining styles for different elements of the website including headlines, links, buttons, photos, form fields, promo items, etc. Some organizations come to us with a very clearly articulated brand that has accompanying logos, fonts, colors, photography, copywriting and more. User Research. Methodology. Introduction. Card Sorts.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Content for your website includes your headlines, body copy, photos, captions, graphics, videos, audio clips, etc. Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. User Research. Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Stay tuned!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. Articulate learning questions on the front end, identify metrics/data to collect to answer questions. The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee. Try as much as possible to avoid having experiments be "extra credit," but a part of the work flow. Incorporate 'rinse and repeat" of experiments over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Is there an articulated need that we can help fulfill? Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Here's a few steps: Why are you listening? What are people saying about our organization ("brand")? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Photo by Solarnu. While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Over the past five years, we’ve stumbled our way into social media.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

We sometimes lose track of the big goals that should underline all of our promotion, and we don't spend the time to develop and refine those goals based on research. We'll post a few stories on Facebook, share photos, and of course, let visitors take things home with them. We started. We don't "do" much with this content currently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization. Reduction in support costs.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Initially, I did the research on venues and on which caterers we could use, but once the big picture decisions were made, we began moving forward quite quickly with the details. I quickly delegated the decorations, the takeaway items, informative presentations, video production, photo booth and raffle operations to other people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. or more like web 1.0?)

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Additionally, it’s important to articulate your goal in your marketing plan so you can communicate your goal to your donors through social media posts and your donation page. ( According to our research , 57% of people who watch a nonprofit video go on to make a donation. How is it relevant to your larger mission?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 8, 2024

You’ve already set your fundraising goal, done initial prospect research , and solicited a few major gifts from board members and major donors. This could include renderings of the building you want to construct, photos of volunteers lending their support, or infographics that help donors visualize your goals and progress.

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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. You will also see some photos of my adorable toddler.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Researchers have established that there’s science behind brand recognition. Their research explains why individuals develop loyalty towards, or distrust of, different brands. Articulate Your Brand Characteristics. This makes strong nonprofit design essential for enabling your organization to stand out from the rest.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These digital assets can include stock photos, templates for various eLearning elements (ranging from page layouts to learning games), ready-to-use animations, vectors, and more. Articulate 360. Articulate 360 is a suite of eLearning authoring apps to align with your various authoring tasks. Multimedia tools.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

StoryBrand Framework There are two major ways you can think about crafting stories, and you can test this through donor research and data analytics to see which is more successful for you. Focus on who your donor is through segmentation, research and surveys. Find out what makes them give and what they care about.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

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. Articulate what you can do for your organization, not what you can do generally. Bosses are like boyfriends; they're not mind readers.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And I’ve taken photos and I really like the concept of using them in this presentation just to kind of prompt us to think about the values that people have because that’s really what legacy giving is all about. So, anyway, Dr. Adrian Sargeant and Elaine Jay do a lot of research on donor retention and fundraising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Here are four ways nonprofit organizations can improve their marketing efforts while also spending less money and less time on the issue: Do Your Research. Examine the data on individual posts to determine which status updates and which photos have been shared the most. Know your audience. Who makes up your audience? Define your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Flickr photo by Allain Bachellier. Idealware looked into this question about nonprofits and Facebook as well as other questions in its recent research study, Using Facebook to Meet Your Mission: Results of a Survey , available for free download with registration and discussed at free webinar on June 16 at 1 PM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. I quickly took photos and did a fast video of him explaining it. Self-expression is such a powerful thing to see and having people articulate it for your cause is the holy grail. I asked the students what else does that?

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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.). For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lupus Research Alliance. Let’s explore the ways that Mustard Seed promotes its mission throughout every inch of the site: Photo gallery. Their well-organized photo gallery page makes great use of space and showcases a variety of their efforts. North Shore Animal League. Mustard Seed Communities. Gooley Hemophilia Center.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I’m also a girl dad and I can’t miss an opportunity to show photos of my three daughters. And if you can’t articulate that, if you can’t really speak to that, then maybe you’re not bringing much value for them and maybe your retention rates are not going to be great. They’re incredible.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. On Friday alone, there were 78,000 tweets and 10,000 photos shared of him. What donors can teach us about making more money, Penelope shares 3 key research driven insights around donor-centric fundraising. And I want more. And we talked.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2018

The results of the research burst several myths surrounding CEOs. Most important, the research reveals the four key behaviors shared by those who reach the top : They are decisive. Powell (photo by: Mariana McClure) Question : A lot has been written about CEOs. How is your research different? Botelho and Kim R.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

As young professionals who have served both as members and staff managers of these groups, Sarah Willey and Corinne Austin will lead you through the research on Next Gen supporters, challenges to anticipate, and steps your organization can take to start a new young friends board from scratch OR to maximize the potential of your existing group.

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