Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Identify your audience and much will fall into place, including your word choice, mood, and tone. But also, it's important to know how you address your audience, if at all. Personal stories might use "I" and never break the fourth wall, or acknowledge the audience. Add Media to the Slides.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Did you know that audiences forget 90 percent of what's presented to them? So — given your teeny amount of available time and your equally tiny budget — here are seven easy-to-implement recommendations that will help your audience retain that 10 percent and keep them from sleeping while you speak: 1. Good job, you!

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Despite the two separate audiences and separate programs, both groups could participate in the very same silent auction using Greater Giving’s Online Bidding. And which moments need to happen at the same time for both virtual and live audiences, so you can be prepared to sync them up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I nominate #14ntctrain.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. 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. Build consensus around target audiences. Visual Design. Solution Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2013

Note: This is the first in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. No matter how big or small the design project, Stakeholder Discovery is always the first step. To transfer information from the client team to the design team. Now, if your nonprofit designs something in-house, purpose #3 is null and void.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Your members are the audience for your learning courses, so be sure to ask for their input. Design and develop the event website and begin promotions. Collect slide decks and/or pre-record content. Interactive polling – Ask poll questions and display the results to help attendees interact and feel a part of the audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

At the same time, however, your messaging will likely reach a broader audience than ever before, leaving the question: What is the balance between individualization and generalization? At the conference, you’ll have no shortage of opportunities to learn, network, share, and have some fun. Related Links : Conference website.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. Their live online event was hidden behind a paywall, but now all video sessions and downloadable slides are available for free after filling out registration for their Pulse Everywhere content, creating long-term engagement. . Microsoft Build.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Think about goals and audience: Before you create content, first think about the ultimate goal and the target audience. Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience. To learn this, test as much as you can in order to get to know your audience well and understand what resonates with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Achieve

APRIL 15, 2015

From the experience design to logistics to technology to coordinating with speakers, sponsors, partners, media … so many details are involved, which can make an event a huge time suck if you let it. Schedule a phone call to talk about the promotional partner’s audience. Who the audience is. Finalize the agreement.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Utilize Visuals Humanize your nonprofit’s stories by adding visuals like photos and videos to engage your audience. This provides a behind-the-scenes of your storytelling process and ensures your audience that people are telling their stories willingly. Does your audience resonate more with photos or videos?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. Visual Design. Solution Design. Deliverables.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference is designed to be a lean, mean, digital best practices machine, which makes it a great fit for nonprofit pros looking to hone their skills, but maybe not a great fit for those looking to build their professional network. Cost: General admission is free. Cost: 2023 ticket prices have not been released yet.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2008

Today, I want to share slide presentations and interviews you might be seeking related to the sessions I chaired this week. In fact, the slides (while minimal) contain content that was not covered in the session, since we focused only on the questions of most audience interest.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We had close to 2,000 fundraising friends sign up, and we kicked things off by surveying the audience about their year-end fundraising goals (which we defined to include Giving Tuesday ). Audience questions from our fundraising friends who attended the webinar. Let’s dive into the poll data. Want help that is 100% free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. Minus the audience ratings or competitive aspect) Maybe use the "Ask Later" 5-minute format, popularized by Ignite Seattle. (10 s part of the fun.)

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Games with incentives or prizes can allow your audience members to display their talents and vote for those who perform the game the best! The audience was then asked to vote on their favorite one, with the winner announced the following day on Twitter. . This will engage the audience but also provide the speaker (and you, as host!)

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges event planners face when hosting a virtual event is ensuring high levels of audience engagement. They provide lower overhead costs which means a greater return on investment and they can be marketing to a wider audience, meaning attendees can be drawn from a global pool.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

By using a graphic background for their site, coupled with an animated slideshow of community engagement, IPLSF sets the tone as soon as their audience reaches their page. The overlay of an inspirational quote further drives home the message, with rhetoric that perfectly mirrors the oversized slide show. The Africa Hope Alliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

My goal for conference presenting moving forward is to be on panels that I have designed or co-designed and that design involves the audience beyond a 5 minute q/a at the end. I realized that I enjoy presenting at sessions when the audience gets to share their knowledge with the room and each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. The down side is the potential for technology glitches and, of course, not being in the room to catch the audience vibe. We got around those challenges quite well. x=audience is skeptical (legs or arms are crossed).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Defined Audience. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Here's how I've documented all the social media fundraising campaigns: Objective and Audience.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. Their live online event was hidden behind a paywall, but now all video sessions and downloadable slides are available for free after filling out registration for their Pulse Everywhere content, creating long-term engagement. . Microsoft Build.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Online safety quizzes can help you assess how much your audience already knows and what topics they might need more training in. Slide Decks and Activities. Here are a few slide decks and activities to get inspired by: The slide deck Austin Stroud uses for teaching online safety at the Monroe County Public Library.

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

From their incredible flexibility to their ability to reach a vast audience, virtual events are extremely beneficial for associations, nonprofits, and event-hosting organizations of all kinds. Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. Optimize your survey design for mobile users. Send out surveys in a timely manner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? ” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes!

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Chicago 2022 was a brand-new opportunity for the Salesforce DevOps community to connect and share expertise at a designated conference. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. Once that group shifted to talking about project ideas and ways the museum could connect to this constituency, they were in a whole different mindset, and the suggestions they made reflected how we can meet community needs, not just market to a particular audience.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. Our event this year was four days, which, in retrospect, is a lot of time to ask people to dedicate. How to Measure Success.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Webinars can greatly benefit from developing a “run of show” which in radio is a script designed to outline the order and amount of timing for items to be discussed within a program. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket. Make Presentations Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I do a lot of presenting and am spending to much time writing bullet points, creating slides, and practicing what I’m going to say. I think that this puts a stop to creating conversation in the room. I wanted to learn some conversational mechanics — so I could stop talking at people and begin talking with them.

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