Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. So, I thought I’d take the time to document my recommended processes here! Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. Content Map.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. Read more about preparing your association’s data for AI in this recent blog. documentation will come in handy. With all these uses (and more!)

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media by learning from and combining pieces of existing data. Through machine learning, it uses pattern recognition to interpret user prompts and generate content matching these prompts. How can generative AI help grantwriters?

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Read our blog for more tips. Go above and beyond by tailoring the content to your member to make the opened email worth their while. According to Community Brands Research, 45% of members said that targeted valuable content was one of their most important benefits. Share in your online community.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The road to implementing new technology can be a long one, but your organization can smoo th the way with business process mapping. Read our blog to learn everything you need to know about b usiness process mapping and prepare your association for implementation success. What is business process mapping?

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Power of Free Learnings – Non-SCORM Content. In the modern world, we have access to a wide-variety of free content. Here is a quick guideline in evaluating the free content available to you, and how to augment your learning program with what you find. Evaluate Current Content. Evaluating the Free Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm. And, if you want to dive deeper into content marketing for nonprofits, go subscribe to Kivi Leroux Miller’s blog. And, if you want to dive deeper into content marketing for nonprofits, go subscribe to Kivi Leroux Miller’s blog.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

Bring your story to life using different types of video content (e.g., Create a comprehensive digital strategy that sets your organization apart from the competition and inspires your audience with compelling content and storytelling. This course provides the tools and framework to easily document those stories of inspiration.”

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2012

When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January.

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Proof reading, avoiding spam triggers, ensuring it’s mobile optimized, creating alluring subject lines are all imperative to the success of the newsletter and what the content inside is promoting. A document of this importance should not be started until this has been accomplished. Gathering your content. Add in content.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Tackle your immediate priorities The four major priorities to focus on for your digital communications in the last quarter of the year are: content strategy, outreach strategy, reporting strategy, and 2024 planning. Content strategy Where do you need to focus your editorial efforts? engagement quarter? Start to plan (ahead!)

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

If nothing else, these things will ensure that your receipt is useful as a tax document. Check out how Mercy Ships uses images and quotes to tell stories in their receipts: Add conditional content. Qgiv’s donation receipts can have conditional content blocks that will only populate when donors meet certain criteria.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

There is so much expert advice out there about how much you should post, what types of content are the best, and how to reach new audiences. Do your research Now we need to figure out what content works for your audience. This includes what themes to hit and what type of content you’ll share. This is your road map.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2017

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Content Creation. Ask folks to think about the people in the group and what content would appeal to them. Image 1: TechSoup. spanhidden.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2023

Once you’ve created a basic service blueprint that documents the human or technological elements of an experience, as we did with the haircut example, you can expand upon the blueprint to capture integrations, marketing funnels, and other relevant considerations. Service blueprinting is a key step in mapping your digital ecosystem.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 15, 2022

What other content can we feature that is connected to the popularity of this page? When you link the whole phrase, your sites gives Google and other search engines better clues about what your content, page, and links are about; this can help boost your authority and ranking. What is the goal of the page? Why is this page so popular?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The three main types of AI you should know about: Generative AI are programs that can use your input to create new content, from images to texts to music. ChatGPT can help you create content, come up with fundraising ideas, and assist with event planning to support your organization’s mission. AI Writing Assistant.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nonprofit marketers are doing more with content marketing – and feeling more confident about their effectiveness. In fact, sixty-six percent of nonprofits are focused on becoming better storytellers and sixty-three percent are working on creating better visual content. What is Content Marketing? Everyone is searching.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Document both employee and volunteer responsibilities. The more clarity you can bring to their responsibilities, the better. Treat this relationship like a formal engagement. Have a point person on staff ready to help with logistics. This is critical. Lines that aren’t clearly drawn are easily erased by a persuasive argument.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2012

Pinterest replaces those emails by sharing that content a more broadly usable, indexable way. Pinterest allows us--requires us, really--to document a part of our creative process openly on the web. Loosely formatted blogs to document progress. It aggregates design inspiration in a central place we all can share.

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TechImpact

APRIL 23, 2014

You’ve invested in it, consistently update the content, post to your blog, and market events through your website. So, of course you want people to see all that great content. It could have been by accident, or to see a specific blog post. Does the phrase “Can you Xerox that document for me?” come to mind?

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2013

Content marketing isn’t a widely used term in the nonprofit and charity world. Kivi Leroux Miller is out there evangelizing content marketing. I’ve shared some thoughts here on npENGAGE as well as other publications about how nonprofits are doing content marketing. Blackbaud Partners with The Content Marketing Institute (CMI).

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Instead, in December of each year, our development team creates one exhaustive document that covers everything we anticipate we’ll need for grant reporting. We often repurpose content between our annual report and more detailed narrative report to maximize our efforts. We call this our narrative report.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What’s the Risk of Starting a Nonprofit [BLOG]. Why Nonprofits Need Them [BLOG]. Documenting your tax status and creating budgets is hardly the stuff of most nonprofit leader’s dreams, but too many awake with nightmares about these topics. The Accounting Basics Every Nonprofit Team Member Should Know [BLOG].

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Tools Nonprofit Podcast Course 81

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Create a document to track them if you use obscure terms (or just keep them simple). Term will help you identify which variation of content got someone to your site – which is super helpful for Search Ads tracking or analysing the effectiveness of a specific ad in your campaign ! Content (utm_content). Term (utm_term).

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Why Doesn''t Your Company Have a Social Media Voice Document? A Social Media ‘Voice’ document. Or is it a tone document? Let’s look at this distinction, by Gather Content:" ''via Blog this''' SocialFish : "People in your organization are going to be connected to social media somehow. It’s inevitable.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2014

Content marketing isn’t a widely used term in the not for profit world. On the other hand, nonprofits produce and use content all the time in order to connect with their supporters! Blackbaud Partners with The Content Marketing Institute (CMI). Why do we Need Nonprofit Content Marketing Research? What gives?

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TechImpact

MARCH 17, 2014

Source ) 25% of nonprofits professionals have a documented content strategy. Source ) 25% of nonprofits professionals have a documented content strategy. The post 10 Nonprofit Statistics You Have To See appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Source ) 6.4% Source ) 18.2%

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 31, 2023

Gathering appropriate and relevant content. Embedding links to your social media content lightens your workload of finding content to add to the book. Unlike static video content , 360-degree footage provides an immersive 3D representation of your house. Properly organize your content by audience.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 17, 2017

In essence, users may find they can work smarter, not harder, on updates, page tweaks, content editing and the like. So welcome to Twenty Seventeen, a nicely crafted theme that focuses more on the business aspects for websites rather than the blogging side of things. More support comes in the form of starter content for premium themes.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. So, I thought I'd take the time to document my recommended processes here! Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. Content Map.

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Map Content Community Chart 75

Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Family House was using a mail merge application for one primary reason: to create a mail merge document to acknowledge donations they receive. This gave them greater freedom to change their letter content throughout the year in response to special events and other business needs. The post What Can Apsona Do for Nonprofits?

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Vermont Nonprofit Doc Application 101

Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

All content on the Hub (including groups, topics, and your preferences) moved on November 15 th to the Trailblazer Community, and is now in ‘Read Only’ mode. . The content remaining includes product documentation and best practice articles. Finding all your groups and content from the Hub is pretty simple. Key Updates.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Content Marketing Editorial Calendar Templates: The Ultimate List | Content Marketing Forum : "Every content marketer needs a plan. This report says that marketers that have a documented strategy are more effective than other content marketers." ''via Blog this'''

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Content Mapping. >> Step 1: Identify all the content. Presentation. And that’s okay!

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